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3Un~ir~de~. THE COMPLETE RITUAL OP TKM
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J. BLANCJIARD OF WHEATON COLLEGE.
OVNR POUR HUNDRED QUOTATIONS WHOM ITANDAID MASONIC AUTHORITIES CONFIRM T~U ACCURACI OW THU RITUAL AND SHOW THU CHARACTER OP MASONIC TEACHING AND DOCTRINE.
VOLUME I ~OURTH TO EIGHTEENTH DEGREE INCLUSIVE
NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE GRADES IN FREEMASONRY SYMIOLIC GRADES Conferred only in regular 1
Lodges of Master Masons,
duly constituted by Grand Lodges
Entere* Apprentice 2’ Felloworaft 3 Master MaSon
INEFFADLE GRADES 4’ 6 5’ 7’ 5
Secret Ijaster 9’ Master Elect of Nine Perfect Master 10’ Master~lect of Fifteen Intimate Secretary 1? Sublime Master Elected Provost and Judge 12’ Grand Master Architect Intendant of the building iS’ Master of the Ninth Arch 14’ Grand Elect Mason Conferred in a Lodge of Perfection, 14’, duly constituted under authority of the Supreme Council of
the 88.
ANCIENT HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL GRADES 15’ Knight of the East or Sword Conferred in a Council,
16’ Prince of Jerusalem
Princes of Jerusalem, 16’.
APOCALYPTIC AND CHRISTIAN GRADES 17’ Knight of the East and West 18’ Knight of Bose Croix de H-R-D-M Conferred in a Chapter of Rose Croix
de H-R-D-M, 18’
MODERN HISTORICAL, CHIVALRIC 6 AND PHILOSOPHICAL GRADES 10’ Grand Pontiff 30’ Master ad Vitam
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57’ Commander of the Temple 28’ KnIght of the Sun 20’ Knight of St. Andrew So’ Grand Elect Kadosh or 23’ Chief of thg Tahernacle Knight of the White and 24’ Prince of the Tahernacle Black Eagle 35’ Knight 0? the Drasen 51’ Grand Inspector Serpent InauistorComrnaiider 36’ Prince of Mercy 52’Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret Conferred In a Consistory, Sublime Princes of
21’ Patriarch Noachite 32’ Prince of Lihanus
the Royal Secret, 82’.
OFFICIAL GRADES 88’ Sovereign Grand Inspector General Conferred only by the SUPREME COUNCIL, 88, and upon those who may be elected to receive It b7 that high body which assembles yearly.
PUBLISHER S PREFACE Had not an extendcd trial demonstrated most clearly that in no way can the arguments against a secret order be put before the public so effectively as in close connection with the ritual thereof, I should not have ventured the great expense of publishing this Illustrated Ritual of the Scottish Rite. Rituals sell readily to both lodge members and outalders, while the most eloquent address on the subject, however replete with important facts and argument., seldom secures many readers. Although many members of any secret society would decidedly prefer to have the analysis of the degrees left out, and I have declined repeated offers to buy enti.c editions of one thousand copies of different rituals at my regular rates, provided I would furnish them without note or comment, not less than half of my sales of rituals are to members of these orders, and hundreds, when ordering a ritual, are careful to give their lodge connections, supposing they could not otherwise get the desired’ ritual. Before I commenced publishing this series of rituals, with foot-note quotations, which, it will be observed, prove the substantial correctness of the ritual and form
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PUUUKIUU’S PREFACE.
PUDLIsIIEn’S PIUPACE.
a skeleton exposition of the degrees, many members of
For the History of Freemasonry and especially of this Scottish Bite; besides the authorities named above, the following are relied on and quoted in the Introduction, Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the various degrees, ‘viz.: “History of Freemasonry and Masonic Digest, by I. W. S. Mitchell, Past Grand Master; Put Grand High Priest, and Past Grand Chaplain of Missouri” Origin and Early History of Masonry, by Steinbreuner. “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; by Robert B. Folger, M. D., Put Master 359; Ex-Secretary General,” etc. “The History of England, by David Hume.” “History of the Girondiste, by Alphonse de Lamar. tine. “General History of Freemasonry in Europe, by Emmanuel Rebold, Past Deputy of the Grahd Orient of France, president of the Academy of Industrial Science. and Member of many Philosophic and Scientij~c Societies.” “Book of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, by Charles T. McClenachan, 33w; Past Grand Muter of Ceremonies of the Supreme Council.” “Manual of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, by Will. M. Cunningham, M. A. K. .T.. Sovereign Grand Inspectior Genei*zl 880.,, “The Life of Aaron Burr, by Matthew L. Davis.” “History of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinoip, bj
these orders, when purchasing rituals, took pains to intimate or pronounce them incorrect. Whea they see that the foot-note quotations from the standard authorities of the order prove the correctness of the ritual, and form a skeleton exposition, they naturally consider themselves absolved from their oath of secrecy, and in hundreds of instances frankly admit the accuracy of the ritual, even without the asking. The substantial correctness of this Scotch Rite Ritual is proved by extensive foot-note quotations from thE “Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, by Albert G. Mackeg, M. D., Put General Grand High Priest and Secretary General of the Supreme Council, 330, Southern Junediction of the United States.” “General History, Cyclopedia, and Dictionary of Freemasouxy, by Robert Macoy, Past Deputy Grand Muter of New York and Nova Scotia:—Po.st Grand Secretary of New York:—Grand Recorder of the Grand Commandery of New Y~rk:—Representative of the Grand Lodges of W.~con.in, Illinois and Nova Scotia, and the Grand Council of New Brunswick.” etc., etc.,
and George Oliver, D. D., “Provincial Grand Steward and Grand Chaplain, Deputy Grand Muter of the Provin/e of Lincolnahire and Past Deputy Grand Muter of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts?’ and the “Dictionary of Freemasonry, by Robert Morris, D. D.. LL. D.”
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PUILIs~3i’u PRENACE.
John C. Reynolds, Worshipful Master of Tyrian Lodge 888; Deputy Grand Secretary,” etc. ‘Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois” from 18.60 to 1860 inclusive. The first tifree Masonic degrees, termed wBlue Lodge,” or “Ancient Craft Masonry,” being common to all the Maponic Rites, are not given in this work, but the full, accurate and prqfusely illustrated ritual of these degrees will be found in “Freemasonry Illustrated,” also published by Ezra A. Cook. The Signs, Grips, Pass Words, etc., termed the “Secret Work” of these degrees, and also of the entire Scottish Rite are given in their order at the close of the Second Volume oz this work. THE PUULISH.
CONTENTS PROIAC5 IwTaooucrIoN Formation of the First Grand Lodge The Chevalier Ramsa~s Career LIes No Disparageme t to Masonic MoralIty The Scottish Rite Brought to America by a Jew This Jew Branded sn Audacious Juggler Freemasonry the Child of Jesultisni CHAPTER l.—HIsroaIcaL SKETCH 01 THU ScovrIhH RITa Importance of the Scottish Rite Born in the City of Nullification and Reboillon The Traitor and Mason Aaron Burr Masonic Conspiracy to Destroy the Union.. General Jackson’s Freemasonry PatriotIsm t’e. Masonic Obligations Destroying the Supreme Councils Records AbomInations and Demon Worship Full Page Engraving, Lodge of Perfection CHAPTER lI.—Losou os Puawucriom History of the Rite of Perfection. Note I The Temple, Arrangement, Furniture, Etc Spiritual Man Represented by a Material Temple. Note 2 Officers Represent the Planets CHAPTER III.—FouxrH ox Sucawr M.asmn’s Duau~... The First of the Ineffable Degrees. Note S The Lodge Hung in Mourning. Note 4 Form of the Lodge, Order and Jeweis “Solomon is Seated in the East. Note r~ “Adoniram. Calied Vensiabie Inspector” in ibe West.•• Note 6 Styie of Apron in Secret Master. Degree. Note 7. Symbolic Age. Hours of Work and Moral OruNimo Cusuxoxiss, Scszr Maim’s DsoauE Sign of Silence Adoniram a Most Prominent Personage. Note S CHAP’1’ER IV.—FouurH oR Szcm Masruas Duoms Preparation of Candidate, Secret Masters ~....
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Page. Mock Scripture RecitatIon by Solomon. 45 ObligatIon. Secret Master’s Degree 46 Mock Funeral ProcessIon 47 Hisart of iliram Abli in a Golden Urn. Note 9 47 ElohIm. th Hebrew Title of Deity. Note 10 46 The Sanctu~~ Smnctorum or Holy of Holies 49 Initiatory Prayer, Secret Master’s Degrce “The Laurel Crown In Masonry,” Note 11 51 The Olive Plant is a Symbol of Peace.” Note 12.... 51 The Key a Symbol of Secrecy. Note 18 51 Token. Secret Master’s Degree 52 Sign of Silence. Secret Master’s Degree Mackey Confirms the Name of the Pa.. Word. Note 14 52 The Sacred Word of the Degree also Confirmed. Note IS 52 Historical Discourse by Grand Orator 58 pIne Lodge Degrees Not Conferred t.y Supreme Couucli Note 16 58 Triangle Enclosing Ineffable Name. Note 1? 58 “The Shekinab of Masonry.’ Note IS 58 The Ineffable Degrees. Note 19 Lodge Use of Other Names of Deity. Note 20 54 Kabbalistic Mysteries and Angels Aipha9~t. Note 21.. 54 Foundation for and Scope of Secret Master’s Degree. Note 22 55 Masonic SymbolIsm of the Circle. Note 28 55 The Ark of the Covenant and it. Contcnts The Seven Branched Candlestick ST Symbolism of the Word Seven. Note 24 ST Cz.osueo C.uzxoNIus, S.caur Macrn’s Duosas as The Duty of the Secret Master. Note 25 ie BIsToUICAL ANALYsIs. Sucszr Masrns’s Duouxa How Masonry Got Its Title “The Royal Art’ 60 Similarity of Masonic ~Jugglery and Priestcraft 60 The Higher Degr~es Invented by Frencl~ Jesuit. 61 Lodge end PoAsh Secrecy and Subject~n 62 Each TryIng to Charter, Tax and Govern Others 68 Invented by Jesuit. and Sold by Jews 54 Freemasonry a Religious Pestilence. . ‘ 65 Giterllla Pike. Moat Puissant Sovereign Grand Coin. mender 66 “Who But a Jesuit Could Invent Such a Degree 1”.... 67 “One Stupendous Demoniacal possession. CHAPTER V.—FZVTH cc Paas’zcv Mama’s Dausa. 69 Object in Establishing This Degree. Note 26 Decorations of Lodge Room for This Degree. Note 27. 70 “Adoniram Plays an Important Role.” Note 26 70 Zerbal the Captain of the Guards. Note 29 70 Description of the Perfect Muter’. Apron. Note 80.. Symbolim of Color of the “Order.” Green. Note 81.. 71
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Page. Jewel of the Degree and Its Symbolism. Note 82 71 Age and Hours of Work. Note 88 71 Moral of the Degree. Note 84 71 Orarenia Cxaxxoinse, Pmas’ucv M&srxa’s DUOEEU 72 The Legend of the Degree. Note 85 72 “The Degree Commemorates a Departed Brother” ‘1~ote 36 73 CHAPTER VX.—INIrIarIore. Puu,xEr M~at~a’a DUOSEC 74 Preparation of Candidate 74 Search for the Criminals. Note 87 75 The Sixteen Columns 76 Acccio, “the Symbol of Immortality.” Note 8J 76 Scripture Recitation. 77 Initiatory Song 75 Ot.iigation of Perfect Master’s Degree 79 Sign of Recognition Perfect Master’s Degree 79 Sign of Admiration SO First Token. Perfect Master’s Degree So •
Third Token Lecture,JPerfect Master’s Degree 5to114,. “a Name Introduced in
82 Scotch Masonry.”
Historical Discourse by Orator Cnoszwo Chaxowiss, Puawuci I6ama’s Dxoa.m Rzsroat~at Aieaz.ysis, Pzaszc’r Mama’s Dxoaas.......... Date of the Origin of Wreemasonry Degrees Fabricated for Political Purposes............ The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted “What a Banter on the Human Race.”................ CHAPTER VIL—Suira ox lurruxars Sucauraxy’s Duoaxa... “Its Emblematic Color Is Hiack.” Note 40.......... Officers of the Degree. Note 41.................... Intimate Secretary’s Apron. Note 42 Moral or Teachings of the Degree. Note 48.......... Eavesdropping Is Unmasonic. Note 44.............. OIUNING Csaaxoxtus~ lueruxars Sucaurasre Daossa........ The Degree “Also Known as Master of Curiosity.”
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An Instance of Unlawful Curiosity. Note 46 96 The Pretended History of the Scotch Rite False. Note 4? 9? CHAPTER vIII.—INITIATIoN, Iwrixays S~c~av~ay’s D~oaxn OS “Joabert. the Companion of Solomon and Hiram.” Joabert’s Curiosity and Rashuese, Note 49 99 “A Laudable Curiosity.” Note ho 99 Joabert Made Secretary of Solomon and Hiram. Note 51. 100 Freemasonry Excites Curiosity. Note 52............ 100
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Page. Obilgation, Intimate Secretary’s Degree.............. 101 Sign. lutimate Secretary............................ 102 Token. Intimate Secretary.......................... 108 Discourse. by Master of Rloquence.................. 108 Berith a S!gnificant Word. Note 58................ 108 Name Zerbqi Invented by the Ritualist. Note 54...... 108 The Legend of the Degree. Note 55................ 104 Lecture. IntImate Secretary’s Degree................ 106 CLOSING CERRMONJES, IhITIsIAra SacRz’rAar’e Du4Iazu........ 109 HIsroxIcAL A’e.&iYeIS, INrIxAl’s SuccurAax’s Duoaas....... 110 Nothing But Faisehood............................. 110 A Fortune from Seiiing Masonic Degrees............. 111 “More Is Meant Than Meets the Eye”................ 112 Humbug Pretensions to Astronomic Teaching........ 112 A Government of Wolves Over Sheep................ 11.4 CHAPTER lX.—Suvv~ru Duorn. oc Puovoer MID Jonas.... 115 Officers and Their Titles. Note 56.................. 115 The Legend of the Degree. Note 57................ 115 Decorations, Apron. Moral of the Degree. Note 58.... 115 Adoniram &nd H:s rather. Abda. Note 59.......... 115 Represenis Middle Chamber of Solomon’s Temple. OPENINC CEREMONIES, PaovosT AND
History of This Degree.
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Note 61....................
CHAPTER 1.—INITUTIoN, Puovoar MID Junau............ Preparation of Candidate........................... Obligst:on Provost end Judge...............~...... Grip and Sign Provost and Judge.................... Answer to Sign...................................
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Tito~ Prince of Harodem. First Provost cad Judge.
Jachinai. a Galile Corl~iption%f Shekinab. Note 63. . . 123 MasoRry Erected on the Superstructure of Geometry. Lecture. Provost and Judge....................... Origin of the Scottish Rite Degrees. Note 6~........
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Tito. Ch:ef of the Three Hundred Architects. Note 66.. 126 The Grand Chapter of Harodim. Note 67............ 126 “ZEs.e. A Significant Word.” Note 65.............. 127 Red the Symboiic Color of the Higher Degrees. Note 69. 128 CLOsINO CEREMONIES. Puovoar AND Juooz.................. 129 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, Piovoer AND JUDOE................. 180
Decorations. Jewel and Moral. Note 71 Page. 184 OveNI~1o CEREMONIES, INTENDANT OP THU BUILDINO.......... 136 CHAPTER XiI.—INITIATION, INTUNDANY 01 THE BI;ILOINO.. 18? Preparation of Candidate ,.......................~ 187 Joabert Personating HIram AbilF........,....... Obii~ation. Intendant of the Building...............• Sign of Surprise. Intendant of the Building.......... Benkhurlm. a Significant Word. Note 72............•
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Signs of Admiration and ~ Jeh, Another Name of Deity, Used As a Pass Note 73.. Token Intendant of the Building........... ..... “Masonic Allusion to the Lion of the Tribe of Judab.” Note ~ Lecture. Intendant of the Building
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“Sometimes Called Master in Israel.” Note 7~. ....... CLOSING CREHoNIEs, I’ITENDANT OF THE DuILnIN(~ HxsroRIcu. ANALYSIs, INTENDAIT OF viii BUILDI?qo......., Masonry the Image of the Beast.................~,, Absolute Secrkcy and Absolute Despotism Caricature of Christ’s Resurrectinn Rulers of the Darkness of This World CHAPTER 1111.—NINTH DEGItEE. OR MASTER EL::cr OF NINF.. History and Object of This Degree. Note 70.......... Clothing. Apron. Jewel, Etc OlUNINO CEREMONIES• MASTER ELECT OF NINE CHAPTER XIV.—IWITIArxox, MASTER ELECT OF Xz’~: Detalir of Mode in Which Traitors Ree”it.’(l Punishment. Note 77..........................,. “Abfrcm. One of the Traitors Craftsmen - \‘ae 78.. “Vengeance. A Word Used in the High Degrees.”
AhEtop.
Name of a Ruffian
of the
Thud
Apewer to Sign. Master Elect of Nine Token. Master Elect of Nine ....................
Discourse by Grand Orator
Intellectual and Moral Ashe,.......................
HISTORICAL ANA.LYRIS. MASTER ELECT OF NINE..............
Legend. Emblematic Coioz. l~tc.
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Obligation Master Elect of Nine .........~...-...... 168 Sign. Master Elect of Nine “A Bioody Arm. Holding by the Hair s Bloody head.” Note 51 ion “Nokcm. A Hebrew Word Signifying Wiiccan,’.’”
CLOsING CEREMONIES, MA5TUR
Moore’s Descrption of False Religions............... 188 CHAPTER 11.—RIGHrn DEGREE, oa INThNDANT 01 THU -BUILD’
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Degree.
Going Into the Lodge As a Frog Into a Snakes Mouth. 180 & Silly. Weak Anachroniam........................ 131 182
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Lecture. Master Riect of Nine ....................,~ ELECT OP NINI
Rage for a Multitude of Degrees..................... A Drill of Assassination and Revenge Turns Lynch Law into a fleilgion, John Quincy Adams on Masonic Penalties
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Page. Swears to Revenge Masonry In General.....,.,...... 155 Masonic Murders Proved in Court.........,...,..... 156 ‘They Were Not At Au Aehamed”.................. is? CHAPTER XV.—TENTH DEGREE, os MASTER Ezzcv op Fl?. Officers of
1the Degree. “The Jewel is a Poniard.” Note 58....................................... The Feliow Craft Ruffians. Note 54................
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Obligation. Sublime Knights Eiected................. Sign. Sublime Knights Elected.... .................
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First Token. Sublime Knights Eiected................
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Second Token. Sublime Knights Eiected
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Signification of the Word Emeth. Note 99 The Heart of Hiram AblE. Note 100................ The Scales, Key and Heart.......................... lecture, Subilme Knights Eieced.................... Names of Tweive Illustrious Knights Corrupted. Note 101 ..............................~...... “No#phej. The Name of One of the Twelve 1a4,ect’ -ors.” Note 102................................ Ark of Alliance and Seven Branched Candisetick...... “Its Seven Branches Are Erpialned in the IneBable Degrees.” Note 108........................... “The Symbolism of the Veils.” Note 104............ The Two Cherubims That Overtopped the Merry Seag. CLOSING CEREMONIEs, SUSUMU KNIGHTS ELECTED........... “The Grand Characteristic of Masonry Is Its Tolera. tion.” Note 106.............................. HISTORICAL ANeLTsIs. Sumaxa KNIGHTS EI.ECTED.......... The preariest of All Dreary Nonsense............... Maniacal Countenance of Pulse Worshipers........... Admits the Strong Man Armed...................... CHAPTER XIX.—TWELN’rH DEGREE, an GRAND MASTER AaCHI’
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“It Is Purely a Scientific Degree.” Note 1O?..........
28? 238 GIggING CEREMONIES. GRMID MearuE ARCHITECT........... 289 This Is Strictly a Scientific Degree.” Note lOS...... 289 CHAPTER ~.—IxxTLaTIoN, GaMIn MASTER ARCHITECT...... 241 Obligation. Grand Master Archltqct.................. 244 Sign. Grand Master Architect....................... 248 Token. Pass Word and Sacred Word.................. 246 Rab.bcgcim, “the Chief of the Architecta.” Note 109.. 24~ Paralisi Ruler. Tracing Dividers and Scale of Parts.... 24? Sector. Protractor and North Star.................. 2%S Freemasons Symbolize the Tempig of Solomon. Note 110. 280 CLOsiNG (‘EREMONIES, GRAND MASTER ARCRITEc’r............ 251 HIsToRIcAL ANALYsIs. GRAND MAS’t~a ARCItITEC’r............ 252 Masonic Tom’fooiery and Sham...................... 252 Imposition of Preten&d Scientific Inst ruction......... 252 Object in Falsifying History........................ 254 CHAPTER XXi.—THIR’rnuxTH, OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE..,... 255 “The Mysteries Connected With the Royal Arch.” Decorations. Titles. Jewel. Apron, Etc................
Decorations and Tities of Officers.................... “Zabulon, the Greek Vorm of Zebulon.” Note 112..... OPENING CEIWMONIZS. ROYAL Aacn DEOREE................ Origin of the Degree. Note 113.................... “Enoch Feared the Genuine Secrets Would Be Lost.”
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Opening Prayer. Royal Arch Degree. ......... CHAPTER XXII.—INmATIo?I. ROYAL ARCH Daom........ The Degree lnvented by Ramasy. Note i15.......... Enoch “Fabled to Have Built a Subterranean Temple.” Note 116..................................... Cublcai Stonp. the Perfect Ashier of English Masonry. Note 177 ~ Obiigation. Royal Arch Degree ~ Signs of AdmIration and Adoration. Royal Arch Degree; Token. Royal Arch Degree ..... ............ Discourse, by Grand Orator ~ Traditions of Freemasonry Connect Enoch With Its History. Note 118 ...~......................... The Masonic Legend About Enoch. Note 110....... Methuselah Connected With Enoch’s Underground Tem’ Pie. Note 120................................ Door to Enoch’s Nine Subterranean Arches Note 121.. Mystic Meaning of EnQch’s Age. Note 122 ~ “Enoch Himself Is But a Symbol of Initiation” Note 12.................. Enoch’s Merbie and Brass Plilars. Note 124 ~ Noah “Called a Patron of Masonry.” Note 12~....... Masonic Legend of the Secret Vault. Note 126........ The Pass Word JUG “a Significant Word.” Note 127.. History of the Pass Word 8hibboletla. Note 12S..~.. The Lost Masonic “Wono.” Note 120............... “Death Is but the Beginning of Life.” Note 130...... Enoch’s Sacred Treasure Discovered by a Freemason.
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“The Great Object of Pursuit in Masonry.” Note 132.. 284 CLOSING CEREMONIER. ROYAL Ancu DEGEEE................. 285 Masonic PossessIon of Tempie-Veii. Rent at the Croci’ hzion. Note 133 ..Q......................~ 285 HISroasC ANALYSIs, ROY~LL ARCH DEGEEE.................. 2S?
False History and False ~ Acknowiedged Fabrications. Yet Subiime.............. Infamous Scheme for Lucre and Ambition............ Writing Latin Before It Ezisted.................... CHAPTER XXIII.—FoURTEENTE DEGREE, OR GRAND ELECT.
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Note 136...................................., “Seeing the Crime and Cdmiuai Punished.” note 187’ GGZco4, “Keeper of the Seals.” Note 180............ “A bdumoa, the Name of the Orator.” Note 180.,..... O5’UNNG CEBEMONIEs,. Gwen ELECT, P5m110 Alto •IJULIMR
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PEILFEC’r AND SUBLIME MAso?~.................. 291 History of the Degree. Decorations. Etc. Note 134.... 291 Secred Vaults. Note 135........................... 291 To Die and to Be Initiated Synonymous T•tm~.
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Sign of Fire. Second Token and Answer............. 822 Sign of Admiration and Third ~ 828 “The Girdle Is Still Used in Many Chivalric Initia. Symbolism of Colors. Note I46.................~ 825 Bius “Emphatically the Coior of Masonry.” Note 147. 825 Red ‘a Symbol of Zeal and Fervency.” Note 149...... 325
Symboilem of Yeiiow. Note ~ Green the Symbol of Immortality.
825 320 Purple “an Emblem of Exalted Office.” Note 151...... 826 Whito “the Symbol of Purity and Innocence.” Note 152. 826 Black “Adopted As the Garment of MournIng.” Note’ 153. 326 Discourse by Grand ~ 327 The Apostacy of Solomon. Note 154 ~ 332 Lecture. Grand Riect. Perfect and Sublime Mason...... 887 “The RelIgion of Masonry is Not Sectarian.” Note 155. 83? “By This Means He Was Detected As an Enemy.” Note 156 ~ “Macbrace Means in Gmiic the Blessed Son.” NotE 157. 840 Perignen. the Discoverer of Assassins. Note 159...... 844 Fifth Sign and Answer. Grand Elect. Perfect and Sub. Eighth and Ninth Signs and Token of Circumspection.. 251 “Gabao,., “a Significant Word in the High Degree,.” Note 150..........
“Zedekiab. a Personage in Some of the High Degrees.”
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Cyrus. “ths Shepherd of the Lord.” Note 161 ........ 57 Oath of Allegiance. Grand ZIect~ Perfsct and Sublime CLOSING CsasxoNIEs. OSSUD ULUCT, PERIECT AND SUBLIME 286 Closing Prayer ..................‘......‘.‘........ LoOGS ow PERFECTIoN, UTANUTES MID REGULATION5..,........ 863 AceMe..; Field of Blood. Note 163................ — EzsTomIcaI. ANALYSIS. 05Mm ElacT, Psasner MID SetsLIME MASON ................~................ S?6 Lodge DIssolved by the Lutheran Reformatlon........ 8?6 Titles lit for the Dialect of a Madhouss.............. 2?? TravestieS. Christian OrdInanceS.................... ITS ‘lbs Catacombs of a New Woeship....,............. 876 Infidelity Its Mother. Rebellion Its Cradle............ am Conjuring and Legerdetasin.... ‘.“‘...... all Satan Filia Their Hearts With Lies................ an CHAPTER XKV.~FI,TU3NtH DEGREE. OR KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST OR Swoso................................ 863 Origin and Object of the Degree. Note 168.......... flu Titles. First Apartent............................ 884 GERNING CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST OR Swoan..... us Names of Officers. Decorations. ac. Note 164........ 886 CHAPTER XXVI.—INITIATION, KNIGHTS 01 THU EAST OR SWORD ......‘.“““““““““““““““‘ 856 Commemorates “the Constr~~ctlon of the Second Temple.” Note 165””’.?.....”’”””””””’”””’ 283 Serubbabel and His Mission. Note 166.............. 883 “Armed ?.000 Masons and Placed Them in the Van.” ‘Nebuchadneasar and His Conquest of inden. Note 168. aoi Restoration of the Jews by King Cyrus. Note 169.... 891 Prayer. Knights of the East or Sword................ 893 King Cyrus “the Hero of the East.” Note 170 ‘.......892 Uerubbabei’s Masonic Career Legendary. Note 1?1.... sea Serubbabers Difficulties in Rebuilding the Tempie. Obilgation. Knight of the East or Sword............ Sign. Knights of the East or Swori.................. Token, Knights of the East or Sword................ Address. by Crand Orator.............’.”’.””””
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Jewish Captives “Bound by Trleugnlaz’ Chains.” Note 178 ~ 407 Cyrus “Mentioned by the Prohet Isaiah.” Note 1U.. 406 Esrubbabel’s Battie With the Aesyrians. Note 175.... 406 eOSING CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST OR Swoan...... 411 IETORIcAE ANALYsIS, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST on lwm..... 418 A fewleb Degree.................................. 413 Delieve a Lie That They Au Might Do Damnsd........ 414 CHAPTER XXVII.-.4IZTSENTH DEGREE, 05 Psiscus ow JanuThis Dsree a Centimuatlon
of the
Previous One.
Princes of Jerusalem “Itylsi Chiefs of Masoasy.” Note 1l7..................................... 417 01.3130 CEREMONIES. PRINCES 01 JEEUUaZuIi.............. 413 Officers’ Titles, Jewel sad Lodge Room Decorations. Note 1?8..................................... 418 C~A?TER XZVIII.—INITIATIoU, PRINCES 01 JERUSALEM.... 430 Inventor of ThIs Degree. Its Legend Ire. Jeesphus. The lemaritans. the Adversaries of the Jews. Note 160. 421 Decree of King Cyrus.............................. 424 Triumphal Chorus................................. 436 King Cyrus and the Prophets Hsgai and Sechariab. Obligation. Princes of Jerusaiem..................... Ulgn. Princes of Jerusaiem......................... hnswsr to Sign and Token. Prices of Jerusalem..... Lecture. Princes of Jerusaie~....................... CeOSING CEREMONIES, PRINCES 01 JEaL’5ALEM............... UISTOEICAI. ANAI.YsIs. PRINcES ‘01 JEUrSALEM.............. Christ Ruminated From the Degree.........,........ 151*. Worship of the Shakers...................... “Changing the Giory of the Incorruptible God”........ A Devilish Magnetism Prevents Their Escape.......... CHAPTER XKIZ.—UEvENTEENTH DEGREE. OR KNIGHTS ow THU EAST MID WEST............................... “Dates Back to the Time of the Crusades.” Note 162.. 01.113. CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST ............ CHAPTER ZZZ.—INITIATION, KNIGHTS 01 T 3aa~ *53
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Preparation of Candidate. Knights of the East and In Center uf Apron “a Lamb en a Book With Seven Seais.’~ Note 188.........’.’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ Sjipture Recitation by Au Puissaqt..............’.’ Obiugation. Knughts of the East and West...~........ “The Seal DeRotes That Which Is Secret.” Note 184.. Sign. Knights of the East and ~ Answer to Sign. Knights of the East and West........ First and Second Tokens. Knights of the East and West .......‘“““““‘‘“‘“‘““““‘““ Sign on Entering Conucil. Knights of the East and
445 44? 448 450 453 452
oPENI~O CEREMONIEs, SOVEREIGN PRINcE 01 ROSS CRoIX....
“Ice
Page’ Its Character.”
Note 104... Charge to Candidate. Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix.. Sign of Reconcuulation and Answer................... SIgn of Help. Sovereign Prince of Rose Croiz........ Anewer to Sign of Help and Token.................. heason Word Sovereign Is time in Title. Note lAS.... PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIs, Sovunmoy PRINCE 01 Rosa CROIX.
Pretended Scotch Origin of Degree False............. To Steal the Popularity of Robert Rruce.............. Rose Cross HelL a Masonic Caricature.............. Impudent and Detestabie Mlmiery..................
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“Sometimes Calied Knight of the Eagle and Pelican.” The Degree Probably Invented by RamaRy. Note 15?.. Lodge Must Meet on Maunday Thursday and Easter Sunday. Note ~ Aproa. “On the Movable Part a Skull and Cross-bones.” ‘Note 1S9...’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’”’’’’’’”’ Symbols of Degree: Cross. Rose. Eagle” and Pelican. Note 190........””””””””””””””’
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Jewel of Degree und Inscription Thereon.
“Evil Be Thou My Good”.........””””””””’’ 461 “Every Lodge Is a Synagogue of Satan”........””” 462 CHAPTER XXXi.~3IGETEENYH DEGREE, OR SOVEREIGN PUINCU 01 ROSE CROIX.........”””””’’”’
M”de Coemopoilte
Obligation. SovereIgn irince of Rose Crolz............ 478 Sign of the Good Shepherd. Sovereign Prince of Rose
Lectvre. Knights of the East and ~ “Still Retains the ApocauyPtic Character of the Degree.” Note 1S5.....’..””””””””””” 454 CLOSING CEREMONIES. KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST MID Wage’..... 458 HISTORIcAL ANALYSIS. KNIGHTS 01 THS EASY AND WEST..... 459 To Burlesque and Degrade Christ........’””””” 459 “To Destroy Profane and Unworthy Brethrn”........
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468 464 465 466 407
Historical Lemons Are Intenseiy Christian.” Note ~ 467 CHAPTER XXXII.—IN1TIATION~ SOvURRION PRINCE 01 ROaR CROIX .......“‘•““““““““““““““ 469 Candidate Must Profess High Esteem for the Members.”
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Masons, who were Protestants, he regained his father’s throne; was pensioned by the French king, who was then called “The Eldest Son of the Bomish Church f’ reigned disgracefully twenty-five years, and died, gazing on a silver cross held before his eyes by a Romish priest narped Hud,dleston, in 1685. Three years afterward, (1688) England was revolutionized. James, the brother of Charles, fled from his throne and people, and took headquarters at the Jesuits’ CoLlege of Clermnont, in Paris. This college thenceforward became a factory of higher Masonic degrees, to govern English Lodges and restore James and Popery to the throne, as Charles II. had been restored before. Meantime Masonry was changed. In 1717; at the Appletree tavern, London, as is well known, four old lodges formed the first Grand Lodge, dropping Craftmasonry, and “accepting” all who would pay dues, promised to fit them for heaven, “the lodge above.” That is to say ;—they set up a false religion, with a despotic constitution of government, and salvation by ceremonies; but omitting the Savior and the Holy Ghost. This horrible compound, now falsely called “Masonrtj,” was in operation while the sons of the fugitive, James II., were exile pretenders to the English throne; living by Masonry, and plotting with Jesuits in France. There now appears on the scene the chief manufacturer of Masonry as it now exists, viz.: as “The AncienE and Accepted Scottish Rite” of 33 degrees. This was no other than the Chevalier Ramsay, of whom Mackey, the leading Lexicographer, Jurist, and Historian of the lodge, says:— “No one played a more important part in the history of Freemasonry in the 18th century, than the Chovalist
INTRODUCTION If all the volcanoes in our globe were Ucippe(l, them would be no more earthquakes; and millions of men and money would be saved. It is the object of this volume to uncap the moral volcanoes slumbering under every American institution. The Secret Lodge undermines the College, by concealing its rowdyism and sheltering its rebellions :—the Court House, by its rival oaths ;—the Legislature, by corrupting and intimidating its members; and the Church, by its rival, mock sacraments; all of which wifl appear, proved in this volume. A condensed account of this Scottish Rite, which is now, say all their writers, “The most popular and most widely diffused,” (Mackey Encyc.. p. 697), may be thus given:— Stone-masons had initiated (i. e., hazed) their apprentices, journeymen and master-masons. At York, England, these three initiations were woven into a “Rite,” (A. D. 926), which overraii England, and is ~ow the basis of all Masonic “Rites,” giving them their names and spirit. In 1649, Charles I. was beheaded and his queen and son Charles 11. were exiles in France, where there was then no centralized lodge power. But Charles II. secretly joined both the Papists and the Masons; and by the aid of French Masons, who were Papists, and English
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THE CHEVALIER RAUSAY’S CAREER.
Ramsay.” * * * “He was indeed the most learned man, who, up to that time, had taken any interest in the order.” Ramsay was a brilliant young Scotch Presbyterian; of course, familia# with the Bible, which he garbled, trav-
estied, and corrupted to manufacture Masonic degrees. lie was the son of a baker; educated in Edinburgh University. He afterward became a companion of kings. priests and pretenders; amassed great wealth, and apostatized from Protestantism to Rome. He was twenty years old when James II. threw the mace into the Thames, and fled to Paris. He went to Holland, and under a popular enthusiast, Pierre Poiret, plunged into the tenets of the mystical theology then widely prevailing. In 1710 he lived six months in the family of the mystical papist, Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, with whom his apostacy to Romanism became complete. He had before been, in the words of Rebold, “The instrument of the Jesuits ;“ framing Masonic degrees, and plotting the restoration of the Stuarts. He became tutor to the two sons of the first Pretender, Charles Edward, and Henry. His~ heart seems to have cleaved to bonnie Scotland. ~Hecalled his first invented degrees ‘Scotch. (Ecossais.) He offered fortunes to his relatives, but they spurned him and his money, gained by apostacy;, by the sale of sham dignities, and from the pay of Catholic kings, priests, princes, and pretenders. The success of Charles II. in recovering his father’s throne ;—his long reign, and the powerful backing of the French king, the Pope, and his Jesuits, exalted their hopes to the highest. Adventurers flocked to them, and for a time Masonry was the rsge in France, and llamsav was its Head-center. He told the French .
noblcsse, who despised a Masonry derived from stonemasons—mechanics, that his new degrees were brought from Palestine in the time of the Crusades, by returned princes, priests, knights and nobles. And in 1740, as its grand orator, he pronounced a discourse before the Grand Lodge of France; manufacturing history as he went on; and the falsehood was greedily swallowed. And the marvel is, if anything Masonic can be marvelous, that while this mass of fundamental lying is admitted and recorded by Mackey, Macoy, Folger and the other Masonic authors, they seem to deem falsehoods no disparagement to pure Masonic “morality” and “truth !“ One has only to glance over their pages to see all the facts just as here given. When France had been sown with the new degrees, it became necessary to codify and condense. Ramsay digested a code of six degrees, called the “Ramsey Rite~” which he attempted to foist on the English, but without success. The gunpowder plot in 1605, was believed, by the British masses, to have resulted from the Romish doctrine that Protcstants have no rights which Papists are morally bound to respect, beyond what policy dictates. And for three centu~ries Romish priests (lid not consecrate a burial ground on Ihe soil of England. The Stuarts sunk to rise no more; and England would none of “Stuart Masonry.” But the flood from the mouth of the dragon flowed on. (Rev. Th:15.) The Chevalier De Bonneville, in fl54, formed a Chapter of Clermont in the Jesuits’ College of that name, with a Rite of Perfection of twenty-five degrees. But Masonry is a “troubled sea whose waters cannot rest, but cast up mire and dirt.” After an agitated existence of four years, this Clermont Chapter was merged in a
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THIS JEW BRANDED AM AUDACIOUS JUGGLER.
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THE SCOTTISH RITB BUOUGUT TO AMERICA BY A JEW.
“Council of Emperors of the East and West,” which out-bragged all before it. The members called themacives “Sovereign Prince Masons,” “Substitutes General of the Royal Art,” and “Grand Superintendents of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jert~salem,” Three years after this, in 1761, this august bubble, 0? “Council of Emperors,” which itself burst a few years afterward, gave Steven Mann, a .Jew, who cared nothing for his religion, and so was willing to adopt the Ramsay “Rite of Perfection,” which Masonically exalts Christ in some of the degrees; if only, like his ancestor, Judas, he might sell him for silver ;—.this mock “Council of Emperors” gave to this Jew, power to establish this Ramsay Rite of Perfection “in every part of the world.” This Jew came to Charleston, South Carolina, via. San Domingo, and started what is now this “Ancienf and Accepted Scottish Rite ;“ the “leading Rite’ of the world !“ A detailed account of Morin’s work in Charleston, S. C., is given in the analysis of’ the fourth degree, (which see.) After appointing a Deputy Inspector General for North America, completing his American work, and appointing some other Inspectors for the West Indies, Morin disappears from history. No one knows when he died, or where he was buried. Of the flrsj sixteen “Deputy Inspectors General” appointed by Morin, thirteen were Jews. (See Folger’s History, p. 38.) From the advent of Morn in 1762, there is a gap of some years in which Masonic history is silent or confused. The struggle for American independence was then beginning, and the long war which established it, took place in that period; and all Masonic writers agree that the twehty-flve degrees brought over by Mann were re-
arranged; eight other degrees added; and, in 1801, 7’Aa Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was formed, as it. now stands; consisting of 33 degrees; and the first “Supreme Council was opened in Charleston, S. C., by John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho in 1801 ;“ which system now leads all others. Next year, 1802, this Rite travelled back to Europe. And, though an American invention, and though its founder, Morin, had only received power to confer the 25 degrees, which were the old Ramsay, Jesuit Rite of Perfection; and though he was branded as an “audacious juggler,” and himself had been recalled, and his patent taken away and given to “Bro. Martin,” in 1766, by the power that gave it Folger, p. 88, Documents, still Monin went on constituting Chapters and Councils all the same. In 1783~ seventeen years after his recall, and his patent had been annulled, he erected in Charleston “The Grand Lodge of Perfection.” And Ragon says: “The Prince Masons in Charleston, who were at first all Jews, not satisfied with the Rite of Perfection, consisting of 25 degrees, in 1801, added eight degrees more, making in all 33 degrees; and constituted themselves “The Supreme Scot tisl& Council of America and the French Possessions.” John Mitchell and Frederick Daicho were the only members of the first Supreme Council in Charleston who were not Jews. These facts are given by Folger, pp. 41-i: attested also by Ragon, Thory and Clavel; see Mackey’s Encyclopcedia, Art. Mortn. But what was to be done? “The Council of Emperors,” which commissioned Morin, was extinct, and hia Patent annulled by The Grand Lodge of France, and he had never had even any MasQnic authority to invent ;—‘
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degrees and create a Council. This is what they di&. They forged or found some constitutions, which they said were given by Frederick the Great, of Prussia, dated in 1786, the year of Frederick’s death at 74 years of age; and he had long been incapable of business! and on these spurious constitutions, which K.Ioss in his history pronounces “The grand lie of the Order;” these infidel Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho, who were not Jews, founded “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, which now owns the temples and rules Freemasonry in America and Europe. (See Kioss, p. 409, quoted by Folger, p. 60, Documents.) Thus we have given from Masonic authorities, a fulllength moral portrait of the present leading system of Masonry in the United States and Europe. And the Freemasonry of today is a child of Jesuitism, born in France, when France was so saturated with Lodgism that even the true-hearted Lafayette was drawn into it. His apron is now shown as a relic in the house of Washington at Mt. Vernon. And Lamartine tells us in the Revolution of 1789-92, that the Freemason lodges were “The Catacombs of a New Worship.”—The GirondiStL vol. 1, p. 188. We ~shalInow give a Historic Sketch of this reigning rite, and see what that “new worship” was.
CHAPTER 1 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AWD ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. Attaupta Universal Dominion—Importance of the Scottish Rite—Born In the City ~t NuWflcation and Rebellion—The Traitor and Mason Aaron Burr—Masonic, Conspiracy to Disrupt the Union—General Jackson‘a Freemasonry—Patriotism Vi. MAsonic Obllgationa—Destroying The Supreme Council’s Records—AbomInatIons and Demon wonhip.
This Rite is now in the ascendant throughout the Masonic world. It consists of thirty-three degrees, counting the three old York Rite Degrees: Entered ApprenLice; Fellow Craft, and Master Mason; which three degrees are the basis of all thE Masonic Rites. This 33~ degree rite Th one of the latest among many attempts to construct a chain of degrees to bind together, tax, and govern the lodges of the world. The Covent Garden Grand Lodge, formed at the Appletree Tavern, London, in 1717, was such an attempt. Four decayed lodges of working Masons, accustomed to initiate their apprentices, journeymen, and masters in a night’s drinking carousal, met at that tavern in February, and on the 24th of June, following, formed the first Grand Lodge, and assumed (usurped) power to charter, tax, and govem the Masons of the world, by declaring“irregular,” all lodges not chartered by themselves. And, as they could withdraw such charters as were given by themselves, and so destroy or cast out of Nfasonry~ll lodges so chartered, their despotism was complete, over all those who were
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chartered by them. This usurpation and imposition was successful. In twenty-one years Freemasonry had spread into France, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Saiony, Belgium, flolland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Asia, Africa and New Holland; and a few years later it had spread throughout Christendom. The success of this swindle encouraged others. As a small specimen of such enterprises a few years since, two adventurers invented, and were selling, a new side degree to Masons in Peoria, Illinois, when one of them stole the money and ran off. The other applied to a lawyer, saying mournfully.—”[f the fellow hadn’t been a fool, we were making money so fast, that m a short -time his half would have been more than all he has stolen.” By such swindling adventurers, “degrees” increased so rapidly that Rebold says there were several thousand at one time practiced in France. As soon as the increase of degrees and dues have tempted ambition and greed, attempts have been made to grasp universal lodge dominion. This was attempted by Weishaupt in 1777; by Frederick II., or others in his name, in Berlin in 1786; by the Grand Orient; and, indeed, by every considerable Masonic body, attempts hate been made to seize “the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,” which were proffered by Satan to Christ, as the inducements to devil worship. Such an attempt to seize universal dominio~i, is this Ancient and Accepted Scotti.sh Rite of 33 degrees, of which E. JuniuB Edwards, Commander in chief of the Grand Consistory of Minnesota, says: Nov. 12, 1885:— 4’AIl the Supreme Councils of the world have finally
BORN IN CITY OF NULLIFICATION AND REBELLION. 29 adopted this schedule.” Hence the importance ofj this volume. Macoy’s Encyclopedia says of this rite :—“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was, for the most part, elaborate4 from the system invented by Ramsay.” In the Historical Analysis of the fourth and fifth degrees, pages 59-68, and 89-92 of this volume, will be found quotations from Mackey, Macoy, Rebold, Folger, and Morris, whose authority as Masonic writers is unquestioned, in ample proof of the fact that this Scottish Rite had its origin in the brains and breasts of an apostate Presbyterian, renegade tyrants, Jews who retained nothing of Judaism but its hatred of Christ, associated with Jesuits, conspiring against the liberties of Europe, and for the overthrow of the Government of France! And its first home in this country was the city of Nullification, Secession, and Rebellion; in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1801, where thirteen Jews and three Protestants: Mitchell, Dalcho and Provost, who had received it from France, falsely pretended to found it on constitutions given by Frederick the Great. If Satan had picked the time, the inventors, and home of this Rite he would have doubtless chosen the same. French principles prevailed; Jefferson was first inaugurated, having defeated John Adams -in 1801, the year when the Charleston Council was born. Aaron Burr, who came near defeating Jefferson, was plotting to divide the infant Union, raising troops, in the Southwest, and both Barmzrd and Gassett say, he used the Royal Arch Cypher to cover his treason, for which Jefferson afterwards tried him. Morin’s Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho, that same year (1801,) took Ramsay’s and his Jesuits’ Rite of Perfection; added eight degrees; made it
MASONIC CONSPIRACY TO DTDOY THE UNION.
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“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” and sent It back to France, where the survivors of The Reign of Terror received it, and today it rules European Masonry. “As early as 1796, while John Jay was Gpvernor, Colonel Burr had various conversations with him on the subject of these (Mexican) provinces. Col. Burr said he could revolutionize and take possession of South America.” “Burr was actively engaged during the years 1005-6 in traversing the western country.” “Previous to the cession of Louisiana Baron Bastrop contracted with the Spanish Government for land near Natchitoches, exceeding thirty miles square.” “The Spanish Government granted to Bastrop one million two hundred tho~isand acres. Col. Lynch. paid Bastrop about one hundred thousand dollars for sixtenths of it; and Burr paid Lynch fifty thousand dollars for half of his (Lynch’s) purchase.” “Gen. Wilkinson detailed to Burr the facilities which would probably be afforded by the inhabitants in effecting a revolution.” ~ Burr writes to l1is daughter, Aug. 1805, “1 have DOW 150 miles of wildernesS to encounter.” “Col. Burr was arrested as a traitor on the Tom Bigbee River, Mississippi Territory.” The above excerpts are taken from “Memow’S of Aaron Burr, by his friend, M. L. Davis, promisCuouslY pages 874 to 888, vol. II, and they prove’ 1. That Burr’s object in raising troops with Blenne?hassett was the disruption of the Union, and a slave empire south and west of the Mississippi, to include Mexico and Central America, then belonging to Spain. For
this he was tried for his lire, but acquitted for want of ~verttreasonable acts. Before his trial, we read in the Memoirs, page 888: “a letter was delivered by Swartwout to General Wilkinson, written in cypher.” Barnard and Gassett say it was in Royal Arch Cypher. And as Burr had been on the staff of Benedict Arnold, a Mason and a traitor, these facts furnish probable proof that Burr’s conspiracy was a Masonic conspiracy. But the crowning proof is this:— By universal Masonic law, but one supreme body can be in one nation. But the Charleston Supreme Council made the United States the sole exception. In 1813, twelve years from its origin, it created a Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdiction, located at New York, limited to the States north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi; the very division contemplated by Burr, and afterward attempted by the Jeff. Davis and Alexander H. Stevens’ Confederacy, by repealing the Missouri Compromise, and, in Stephens’ words, attempting an “Empire whose corner stone is slavery.” But for Jefferson’s patriotism and Jackson’s courage and decision, the attempt would have been made years before by Calhoun’s Nullification. Indeed, the hopes and predictions of Monarchists, Papists and Anarchists of Europe, from the first, were that the United States would spliton the Ohio and Mississippi; shut off New England and her principles between the Atlantic,, St. Lawrence, Mississippi and Ohio, and leave the whole vast South and West; its soil, climate and mines, to slavery, the lodge, the priest and the mob. Now considering that the (Tharleston Supreme Council Masonically divided our Union in 1813, by these wry lines :—Conaidering that Aaron Burr, using the Ma..
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sonic cypher, was attempting precisely the same rending of the Union at ~hesame time ;—considering that afterwards our Union was rent by the lodge-room conspiracies ~f the South ;—considering that our Congress upheld slavery, ~ti1lLincoln took the helm, and 8eward, Sumner, Wilson, Stevens, Stanton and Chase, all of whom were Antimasons, controlled Congress;— and considering that our war was a failure, till (kane took the word, who left his dying testimony against the Lodge ;—and, above all, considering that the Ecclesiastical despot and master of Jeuits at Rome was the only European power which reached his arm across the Atlantic to recognize the Rebellion and rend the Union; —and laying all these considerations together, that mind must be weak, ignorant or worse, which does not see, in that Charleston Supreme Council of 1801, and its Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, a devil’s government with a devil’s gospel; and in the subterranean lodges sprang from it, in the strong words of Lamartine, the “Catac9mbs of a new worship,” which worship was that of snaked woman, a Goddess of Reason in the Champ do Mars ;—a religion which Frenchmen shudder to remember; which filled France with terror, and bathed it in blood. But was not Gen. Jackson a Mason? And were not all liis cabinet honorary members of Federal Lodge in the City of Washington? An.. This is all true. But Jackson firmly believed in Christ, to whom he humbly professed conversion before he died; and he was a firm believer in the Union. And though ignorant in many respects, he was fearless and faithful to the Government, and regretted that he had not hung John C. Calhoun for attempting its dissolution. While Liv~ngstoa,
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his Secretary of State, was a champion of the lodge and
Poinsett, by introducing a new Rite into Mexico, caused a series of bloody revolutions in that unhappy country. Of the Masons in the United States, it has been estimated that only oile in five habitually attend lodge meetings, and the lodges are mainly supported by the four-fifths who are non-attendants, who pay dues to avoid lodge-vengeance. As a rule, the one-fifth who attoDd the meetings share the income among themselves, while the absentees pay it. There are, however, exceptions. A physician had charge of our Post Hospital near Little Rock, Arkansas. An orderly had ‘arrested a rebel who had murdered his Union neighbor, robbing him of $2,000. The physician was a high Mason, and one day the Rebel robber and murderer called on the doctor for a private interview, on the square, when the following dialogue took place: Rebel. “Doctor, I am complicated in this murder case, and am arrested by the orderly. Can you help me Doctor. “Well, did you kill him ?“ Rebel. “Yes.” Doctor. “Well, did you get the two thousand dollam ?“ Rebel. “Yes.” Doctor. “Well, what do you expect of me Rebel. “That you will aid in extricating me according to our obligations as Masons. Doctor. “You infamous puppy, you. If you expect me to make such a use of my Masonry, for once, you have mistaken your man. I will endeavor to be up to Little Rock at your hearing, and have a word to say.” The orderly took the Rebel up to Little Rock, and
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DESTROYING THE SUPREME COUNCIL’S RECORDS.
Masonic Union officers cleared him! The Rebel was a true Mason. The Surgeon was a patriot. Like instances to this are at hand, which would fill a moderate volume. There were Masons and Roman Catholics who~ were good men and patriots; as there were, in the New Testament, pagan centurions who received Christ. But neither the lodge or the confessional is Chriutiaqi or American. We have seen from its history, given by its own authors, that this “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” is not “ancient,” but modern; not “accepted,” but invented; not “Scottish,” but French; and so one continuous falsehood. But its most revolting features are yet to be drawn. Destroying records is confessing crime. Its writers complain that the early English lodge records were destroyed; doubtless lest their secret proceedings should be brought into the courts. But the Charleston Supreme Council destroyed its proceedings, for more than half a century. From 1801 to 1860 no records exist. In his address before his Council in 1878, Albert Pike said: “I am often asI~ed why we do not publish our old transactions? to ~whichI am compelled to reply, that we have none to publish. We have no records of the transactions at Charleston from 1801 to 1860. What minutes we had were destroyed during the war.” The above is taken from the speech of Edwards, commander in chief of the Minnesota Grand Consistory, Nov. 12, 1885. Those records covered the period of Nullilcation and the rise of the Rebellion, and were doubtless ghastly with treason, with attempts to burn down northern cities,
ABOMINATIONS AND DEMON WOIlSilIp.
35 82nd poison inhabitants; for such things were attempted. But the records of the Northern Council were preserved, and its Historian, Folger, says: “It is to be regretted that from its very commencement its progress in this co~intry has been marked with bitter contentions and constant quarrels.” Folger.. p. 15. These quarrels have most of them arisen between the old York Rite, of three degrees, and the French Jesuit degrees, which have finally conquered and swallowe4 the less vicious Blue Lodge, which was first opened in this country in Boston in 1833. In New England the whole secret lodge was looked on with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather of Dr. Richard’ Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Williston of East Haven, had a saying, “a Freemason is handin-hand with the devil.” Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, R. I., in Dr. E. A. Parks’ Memoir of Emmons, says, “the lodge belongs to the Kiiigdom of Satan.” Later, the whole Andover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, denounced it in unmeasured terms. The ground idea of Congregationalism, .since Bradahaw, rejects as “unlawful” all rites not enjoined by the word of God, which includes lodges, which are “inventions of men ;“ and a full half million of Christians in other depominations regard secret lodges as Synagogues of Satan to be disfellowshipped by the children of God. A careful reading of the analysis of the degrees of this Rite will convince all candid minds, that they are the “abominations” and demon-worship of the Scriptures which prevent the coming of Christ.
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Every Lodge of the Scotch Rite is divided into two portions by means of a Ballustrade, or railing, running North and South. This railing has a gate. The flooring of the East end of the Lodge inside of the railing and gate is elevated one or two feet above that of the West. The walls are adorned by a representation of twelve (12) columns. At the door of the lodge is a brazen layer. There are elevated seats and desks for each of the following Officers: EAST. ~ I WEST. MASTER. 1st AssIsTA~. O1U~TOR J 2nd ASSISTANT. SECRETARY. TREAsURER
EXPERT. MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Rot. 3.—”The Frecmnasana have, at all e,enta. aelmed with ayidl~ the idea of representing In their symboUc language the Interior and spiritual man by a material temple. They have the doctrine of the great Apostle of the Gentiles, who has said. ‘Kaow p are the temple at Gad. and that the s~lrit of God dwelleth in you. The great hody of the Masonic Craft. Ioakln~ only to this first Temple erected by the wisdom of King flolaman. ma e It the symbol of Ufe; sad as the great ab~et of Masonry is the kaich after trath. they are directed to build up is temple as a fitting receptecle for truth when found, a place where it may dwell. Just as the ancient Jews built up their great Temple as a dwelling-place far Him w~o Is the author of all truth.’ ‘—Xackw”a Ro. eyeisp.disef lreemasonly. Article Temple, Symbolism .1 the
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Which corresponds with the Sun, Moon,, Earth and five visible planets, viz: Master ..........................Sun. Orator ..........................Egrth. Sectetary ........................Venus. Master of Ceremonies.............. Moon. Expert ..........................Mars. Sad Assistant ....................Jupiter. lad Assistant Saturn. In the East or North side under a curtained canopy the Ark. In front of the Ark on the North Side, the Tweli’e keyes, Altar of Perfume and Vase of Ointment. In the South Side, opposite the Ark, the sevenbranched candlestick.
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white tears, the Master represents Solomon and is styled “Most Powerful” who comes to the Temple to replace the loss of Hiram Abif, by seven experts. There is only one Warden, who is called Adoniram; it was him who had the inspection of the workmanship at Mount Lebanon; be was the first Secret Master.
CHAPTER III FOURTH
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FORM 01 THE LODGE.
DEGREE.
This grade originated with King Solomon, about the time the Temple was completed, or shortly after. He selected seven of the most worthy and expert brethren from the Craft, and appointed them Guards of the Sanctum Sanctorum, and the sacred furniture of the Holy Place. They were called Secret Masters, and in due time were advanced to higher grades, and others selected to fill their places. The ritual is replete with valuable and interesting details relative to the Mystic meaning of the sacred furniture and ornameilts of the Sanctum Sanctorum. The ceremonies of initiation are solemn and impressive and it forms a beautiful introductory to the Ineffable Series. This lodge’ must be hung in black and strewed with Mete 3.—”¶’he fourth degree In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and the first of what are called the ‘ineffable Degrees.’ It refers te these circumstances which occurred at the Temple when Solomon reneired to the building for the purpose of supplying the less of Its lilus. triosa builder hy the appointment of se,en capers, among whom were te be divided the labors which heretefore had been lutruated in one tic mind. The lecture elaborately explains the mystic meaning of Kgsn a sacred thinr which were conteined In the Sanctum Sanctorum. or Boil... —Machey’s Eneyclopadia of lrespiasen,y, Article bers
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Mete 4.—”The Lodge is hung with black curtains strewed with tea,.. lIc of ~ef. There should be eighty’one lights. distrtbuted by nine ~o aim’ but this number is often dIspensed with, and three times theee esbatituted. later rituals reduce them te eight. ‘Ree are but two presiding officers—a Master, styled Puissant.’ sad fin King Solomes. sad an ins~r. representIng Adonirsm~ the ~atAhds, who had the inspection of the wor~en on Mount Lebanom, ad whf is mid to have hsen the first Secret Master.”—Maeksy’s - at ?vsemsseasy, Article Secret Master.
holds a scepter in his hand, is clothed in Solomon6robes mourning lined with ermine and sits in the East before a Triangular Altar, on which is a Crown of Laurels and Olive leaves. Adoniram, the inspector is placed in the West; no aprons are used because the work is suspended in consequence of the death of Hiram Abiff. ORDER AND JEWELS.
Solomon is decorated with a large blue watered ribbon from the right shoulder to the left hip to which is suspended a gold triangle. Adoniram is clothed in black robe and cap and is decorated with a broad white ribbon bordered with black round his neck in a triangular form having an Ivory Key hanging thereto with the letter (Z) cut on it. All the brethren should wear the same with white aprons’ and gloves, the strings of the aprons black, the Note 5.—”soiomon is seated in the east, clothed in mourning robes lined aith ermine, holding a sceptre In his hand, and decorated wIth a blue sash from the right shoulder to the left hip, from which Is suspend. ed a triangle of gold. Detore him is placed a trianqular_sitar, on which is depceited a wresth of laurel and olive ies,es.’ —— ye Recycle. padle of Presmssonq, Article Secret Master. Note 6.—”Adonlram. called ‘venerable Inspector.’ is sested in the west, but without any implement of office. in commemoration of the fact that the works were suspended at the time of the institution of this do. gree. He Is decorated with a traingular white coflar. bordered with lack from which Is suspended sn ivnr: key, with ‘the letter Z engraved thereon, which constitute the collar, and ~ewei of the degree. These decorations are worn by all the brethren. —Machey’s Racyolopadla of lweemascnq. Article Secret Master. Mete 7.—”The apron is white, edged with black and with black strings; the flap blue, with an open eye thereon embroidered in gold. The modern ritual prescribes that two branches of olive and laurel crossing ench other shall be on the middle of the apron.”—Macksy’a Zacyclopadla of Fzesuasseinry, Article Secret Master.
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flaps blue, with an eye painted thereon in gold. The white signifies the innocence of the masters, and the black mourning for their chief. The lodge should be illuminated by eighty-one candles, distributed as per plate. Batter1~ ~ ...—S~mbo1ic Age.—THREE TIMES 27 —81 years—Houra of Work—F OX DAWN UNTIL CLOSE OF DAY—MOftLZ””’THE DUTY 01 SILENCE.
SECRECY AND
OPENING CEREMONIES Solomon—Brother Adoniram,5 are you a Secret Maeter? Adoniram-’--Most Powerful, I have passed from the Square to the Compass, I have seen the tomb of our Rcspcctable Master Hiram Abiff, and have in company with my brethren sl~ed tears thereat. Solomon—What’s the clock my brother P Adoniram—The dawn of day has driven away darkness, and the light begins to shine in this lodge. Solomon—If the light has driven away darkness, and wc are all Secret Masters, it is time to begin work; givc notice that I am going to open this lodge of Secret Masters. Adoniram—Brethren, you will please take notice that the Most Powerful is about to open this lodge of Secret Masters. Solomon—(Seven raps: 000-000-0; all rise.) Adoniraln—(Seven raps: 000-000-0.) All—(clap hands seven times 000000-0.) Solomon—Together Brethren. SIGN OF SILENCE.
All put the two first fingers of the right hand on the lips. Solomon—Illustrious Brethren, this lodge is open and devoted lo God. Solomon—(One rap.)
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SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.
CHAPTER IV FOURTH OR SECRET MASTER’S
DEGREE.
IN[TIATION. PRErARATION OF CANDIDATE.
The candidate is prepared as a Master Mason with an apron tied over his eyes, and a square on his forehead. Ifaster of Ceremonies then leads him to the door of the lodge and knocks seven times: 000-000-0. Adoiiira rn—Thrice Powerful, I hear the Master’s knock at the door of our Sanctuary. Solornon—B~rother Ad’oniram, attend to this call and see who makes it. Adonirarn—(Opens the door,) Who knocks at the door I~andidaie.~
of our Sanctuary?
.llaster of Ceremonies—One who knows where the Acacia grows and would help us gather its fruit. Adonii’am—(To Solomon) Most Powerful, one who knows where the Acacia grows and would help us gather its fruit. Solomon—Let him be admitted. Adoniram—(To Master of Ceremonies) Let him be admitted.
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Master of Ceremonies with candidate enters, and conducts him seven times round the lodge, and then to the Altar. Solomon—While the Lord reigneth, let the people tremble, he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved; Praise ye the Lord—praise, 0 ye servants of the Lord, praise ye the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth forevermore: From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord’s name is to be praised: The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the Heavens—Praise ye the Lord, praise ye the name of the Lord; praise him, 0 ye servants of the Lord, ye that stand in the house of the Lord—in the Courts of the house of our God, praise the Lord for the Lord is good—sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant: For the Lord had chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure: Let them praise the name of the Lord—for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the Earth and Heaven— Thy name, 0 Lord endureth forever, and thy memorial throughout all generations:
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soul and all that is within me bless his holy name. Solomon—(Scven raps; 000-000-0—All rise.) Brother Adoniram I see this Master who seeks the sanctuary bears the square upon his forehead, and thereby gives assurance that reason rules his mind; but he is yet blind though he has learned to labor; shall he behold the resplendant name of God? Adonirtzm—Thrice Powerful, if he is willing to pronounce the oath, which binds us all we consent that he should be permitted to see the mystic name..
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Solomow—My Brother, are you willing to comply with this requisition? Candidate—i am. Solomon—You will then kneel and contract your obligation. OBLIGATION SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.
I solemnly promise that I will not reveal the mysteries of the Secret Masters, and will not unveil the wonders of their Sanctuary to the profane, I further promise to seek to know myself, and to that end will exert my mind and search my heart to discover my duty to myself, to mankind and to God; Amen. Solomon—Together brethren. (All clap seven times and the candidate is brought to light.) Solomon—(Points to the mystic light.) My brother behold the resplendent luminary which now dawns upon our rite. Heretofore the blazing star shone upon us, but its rays were scattered or dispersed; now we have gathered them into a focus—They are now the light of the “All Seeing Eye,” the oI~1nipresence of Jehovah, whose mystic name it behooves us to know. That name can be learned only by him who “knows himself,” and hence the circle which encloses the triangle of duty to self, to others and to God. Adoniw’am—(Knocks) Thrice Powerful, a messenger brings tidings of the remains of our departed Master Hiram Abiff. Solomon—What tidings? Adoniinm—Agreeable to your order his heart has been embalmed and put with his ashes into an urn of the purest gold and the custodians of the precious treasure now await your orders.
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Solombn—(Seven raps, 000-000-0, all rise) Brethren let us go upon an holy pilgrimage; follow me, in mournful procession to convey the precious remains of our deceased Master into the’ Holy of Holies. Solomon—Brothers Expert and Master of Ceremonies you will now invest ‘the brethren with their aprons, and form a procession in the North, facing the East, with candidate and Adoniram at the head. MUSIC “DIRGE.”
Procession marches round the room and then to Anteroom; and forms a half circle round the urn which is guarded by two Secret Masters. Solomon—Alas! Alas! All—Alas! Alas! Alas! Solomon—Oh my brethren, well may we mourn the death of so great and so good a man for by the deed which cut him from us, we have lost the word; the true name of God, and the truth itself: In this “Urn”’ (takes the urn) has been treasured up the Heart of him who loved truth above all things: Let us convey it into the Sanctuary as a perpetual token of our sorrow and of our desire to recover what we hav’e lost, (gives The urn to candidate) Brother, on you who have come to aid us on this memorable occasion we confer the honor of bearing those ashes to their sepulchre. A procession is now formed, headed by Master of Ceremonies and Expert, and closed by Solomon and Adoniram, with candidate between them bearing the urn, while marehing round the lodge room and through the ante-rooms. Nate O.—”Oroaa burrowed. It may be auppoled. his Idea from an elder aymhol In the high degrees, where. In the deacription of the temh of Hiram AhIff. It is arnid th the heart warn enclerned In a golden urn. the aide of whIch a titangular atone wag ae.zed, Inacribed with the lottewa 5. U. U. within a wrestb of bach. and placed on the top of am obellak.”—Uacbej”a UmoylcIopadla of Freemagomay. Article Va..
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Solo.,wn—(Eecites) “0 Lord, our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the Earth! Who hast set thy glory above the Heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enexuies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hut. ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou haM made him a little lower than the angels and hut crowned him with glory and honor, thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; all sheep and oxen yea, and the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the se~ 0 Lord, Our Lord, how excelleut is thy name in all the Earth I’, Whoso draweth nigh to the contemplation of the ineffable mysteries, let him put of the shoes of his worldly conversation and corrupt affections, for the place whereon he standeth is holy ground. May we ever remember to keep a watchful eye upon the feet of our affections; before we approach the house of the Lord, let us seriously consider whether we have taken straight steps in th~ paths of his commandments,, and whether our feet~are set In due order, and cleansed ~coordingto the purifications of the Sanctuary: Let ~iswash as it were in the layer of repentance, wash and make you clean, put away the evil of your doings; acknowledge your iniquities, and return unto the Lord, he will have mercy upon you, and to our Elohimle he will abundantly pardon. W~wSU—”BI~Nt. A ‘me a~ipUe4 Ia3abuwtoamjdeIty,bmteomu~ss the tea. God Aco.rdIaXWIdaCI. It mama the mi km~maS. ~@g,bowever. much aurni ‘a NS3OSq”—NEI*0’i inipI~Wi .0’ I’~ —~ a~wq~
Lot us incite each other to practice virtue and shun vice; while our feet are prepared for walking in the ways of his commandments, our hands should be prepared in like manner for working in his service. Saith the father of our Ancient Most Puissant Grand Master, “I will wash my hands in innocency, (washes his hands) and so will I compass thine Altar.” May he who beareth the keys of David open a door of entrance to this our brother. You have hitherto seen only a thick veil, which hides from your view the Sanctum Sanctorum of God’s [loly Temple. Tour fidelity, zeal and constancy have won for you the favor you are now about to receive of viewing some of our treasures and gaining admission into the secret or holy place. At the end of this, the head of the procession stops at the entrance of the Sanctum Sanctorum, they open and face inward, and Solomon, Candidate and Adoniram march between the columns to the door of the balustrade and are stopped by the Master of Ceremonies. Master of Ceremonies—This is the Holy of Holies, and none can enter it unless he opens the gate with the key of Intellect, have you (candidate) the key? Solomon—We have it, and he carries the heart of truth, the Heart of Hiram, our regetted venerable Master. Master of (Y~w~moniea—By these tokens you may enter. There is a table in front of the Throne on which are placed, let’ The Ark of Alliance.—(Adaptation.) End. A Pot of Incense, on a tripod.—(Beautg.) 3rd. The Twelve Loaves.—(Socie 4,,..) 4th. The Seven Branched Candlestick.— (K.)
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Solomon—Here brother in the midst of the Emblems of our Deuwe for Society, of the Light of Knowledge, of the Sense of Beauty, and of the Adaptation of Man to God, let us deposit the sacred heart of our deceased venerable Master, to remind us forever, that though the assassins have destroyed his body; yet the natur~zl law, which is also the word of God, is written upon the heart of every man who cometh into the world. The candidate places the Urn. Solomon—Let us pray. PRAYER.
Oh, God we pray thee, thou Grand Architect of the Universe to cast thy all seeing eye upon this Sanctuary, which symbolizes the Conscience of Man, and help us to use the Key of Intelligence within the Balustrade of Reason, so that we may know ourselves, link ourselves unto thee, and become fit for the immortality thou has promised. Adoniram—Amen. Solomon—And now my brethren, before we separate, b~fore I crown this Urn, with the Laurel and the Olive branch in token of the ~Gloi~jand the Peace which is crowned unto him ~ho fulfils his duty and loves truth. (Crowns the Urn.) Solomon—Glory and Peace unto Hiram. All—Glory and Peace unto Hiram. Solomon—(To the candidate) and now my brother, a new obligation and task unites us, and it becomes my pleasant duty to confer upon you, as a reward for the service you have just performed the title of Secret Master and member of this Secret Chamber 0. L. No. Solomon—(Installs him by investing him with the Ribbon, Key and Apron, places on his head a Crown or —
IiJITIATION. 51 1 and Olivel’ leaves.) My dear brothWreath of Laurels’ er, I receive you a Secret Master, and give you rank among the Levites; this laurel which I have invested you ~vith,alludes to the victory you are to gain over your passions, the olive is a symbol of that peace and union which should reign among us; it rests with you to desire the favor, that God may one day enable you to arrive at the secret place, and there to contemplate the pillar beauty. The Ivory Key” suspended by a white and black ribbon is a symbol of your fidelity, innocence and discretion, the apron and gloves are emblematk 1d of the candor of all the Secret Masters, among whom you are now introduced in quality of Secret Master. I give you rank among the Levites, to be a faithful guardian of the Sanctum Sanctorum, and have placed you among the number seven to supply the place of our dear Master Hiram AbiN; and have also appointed you one of the conductors of the work, which i~ to be raised to the divinity. The Eye on your apron is there to remind you to be ever watchful over the workmen. Note l1—”A decoration used In some of the hIgher degrees of the AncIent and Accepted ScottIsh RIte. The laniel Is an emblem of Tic. tory; and the corona triumphalla of the Roman,, whIch was given to generals who bad Seined a triumph by their conquests. wee made of laurel leavea. The lanrel crown In Maaonry Is gIven to hIm who has made a conqneat over his passions. “—Macksp.’, Eneynlopudla of Ire.. maaonry. Artiele Lintel Orown. Note N.—”’in a secondary acne., the olive plant Is a symbol of peace and VIctory; but In Its primary sense, like aU the other sacred planta of antiquIty, It was a symbol of resurrectIon and Immortality. Hence In the AncIent Mysteries It was the analogue of the Acacla of Free.
masonry.” Mackey’s Eneyclopadia of lreemaaonq, Article Olive. Note 18.—”Tls. key, howeyer, is sIll! preserved as a symbol of Se. crecy In the Royal Arch degree; and It Is also presented to us In the same gense In the Ivory key of the Secret M~ater, or fourth degree of the 5cottleb Rite. in many of the German Lodges en Ivory key Is made
a part of the MasonIc clothIng of each brother. te remInd hIm that je should lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemaaonry In hIs heart,”... Machey’s Eneyclopudla ef rreeme.ao~,, Article Key.
58 Solomon—Go, my brother, pass the Brethren and listen to our Grand Orator. INITIATION.
52 SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE. Solomon then gives thc following: TOKENS.
First give the Master’s Grip, and then slip the hand to each other’s elbow, and balance ,sevt.’n times; at the same time bring the foot and knee in contact. Pass Word—Zi-Za.” (resplindent.) Sacred Word—Adonai.”
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Sign—Is that of silence, which is made by placing the first two fingers of the right hand on the lips) which ~sanswered by the first two fingers of the left. SIgn of Silance. Note 14.—”TbIs Is~ saId. In one of the Ineffable dopees of the ScottIsh RIte, to be the name ot the hal’ ustrade before the sanctum Sanctorum. There Is no ,‘II(h wbrd In Rebrew, hut It soar he a corruption of the TalmudIC 1’a boson, a little beam, a pl’l. z~zn. which Bnxtorf (Lex. Tatm p defines ii email railer.” —.)Lackq’s Enc~#cfopaofiiz uJFIWnlisOlil’lj. ArtiCleZswt. ~mw l.~.—”In lIchrcw’~lIt,bOli1g the plural of excellence for Adois. and •lgi,if~Iliil the Lord. TheSons. who rcveiently avoided lb. pronnuclatlqo OW the escred name JehoVah, were accustomed, whenever that name occurred, to euhstltnte for It the word Adonal In readIng. As to the use ot the plural form Instead of the sIngular, the Rabblns say. ‘E,ery word IndIcative of domInIon, though sIngular In moanIng. Is made piorsl in form.’ ThIs Is called the ‘piuralls excelientlte.” The Talmudlsts also say. (Rnitroff.) Lax. TaIm.. that the telracrammston Is called Shoe hamphovash. the name that Is explaIned. beesose It Is exolalned. uttered and set forth by the word Adoasl. (See Jehovah and Sham Kampher. ash.) Adonal Is used as a slgnlficunt 1 of the hIgh 45. gecee of Masonry, and may almost a~ais be eon:lder5d as allualYS to or symbolIC of the True word.”—Maokey’s Inoyelopudla of Tree.
masOnry, Artinie Adofla.I.
HISTORICAL DISCOURSES BY GRANfl ORATOR.
My Brother, you have had the honor of being received and acknowledged a Secret Master” by passing from the Square to the Compass: You were made under the Laurel and Olive tree, and received in the Sanctum Sanctorum, by Solomon with Adoniram the inspector of the work. On entering the Sanctum Sanctorum, you beheld a brilliant Delta” enclosing certain Hebraic characters, from which emanated nine beams of the Shekinah,” bearing each an initial of a divine name as derived from an attribute and the whole surrounded by a great circle. The meaning of those Hebriac characters in the Delta describe the ineffable” name of the Grand Architect of the Universe, which was forbidden to be spoken by a law of Moses, in consequence of which the true pronunciation was lost to all but the Grand, .~bect, Perfect and Sublime Masons; a knowledge of which I hope you will one day acquire by virtue of your attachment to our Note 16.—’ ‘In numberIng the 33 degrees of the Scotch RIte, that of Secret Master is set as the 4th. because none lot a Master Mason. made In the York RIte Is entItled to It. In the UnIted State, the 5upreme Councils of the Northern and Southern JurisdIctIons, respectively, have thus tar waIved the right to confer the SymbolIcal or Blue lodge Se’ grees.“—MorrIs’ DictIonary of rreeinaaonry, Article Scotch Masonry,
‘Noi’z 17 —“Atrianbie. The name of a piece of furniture In a comuw dory of Naughts Tempiars, which, being of £ triengular form, derives name from the Greek letter ~, delta. It is also the title given. in tho P~ncl, and Scottish Rites, to tho luminous trinogie wblcn encloase. the iaemsbl’ name.” —Mackei’s Eneyctopcetfa. ~f F~eonassoesnJ, 4,fIde Defti.’ Note 1S.—”The Shekinab was the symbol of tbe divIne glory; hut the
true glory of dlylnlty is Truth, and DivIne Truth Is therefore the Sheki’ nab of Masonry. ThIs Is symbolIzed by lIght, which Is no longer used by us as a ‘substitute’ for the Sheklnab. or the divIne glory. hut as Its symbol—the physIcal eipressloo of Its essence.’ ‘—Mackey’s mop’
clopmdla of lreemaaonry. Article Shekinals.
Note IS.—”The Ineffable degrees, so’cslled are the eleven confared
In a I.odge of Pcrfectlon. known as the second series of degrees In the AncIent sod Accepted rIte. “—Macoy’s Enoyclopadla sad Dictionary aS lre.masourv. Article Ineffable.
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order, and your zeal in discharging the duties of your obligation. The initials of the names you saw in the nine beams of the Shekinah, are those which God gave himself when he spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, intimating to him at the same time that his future issue should one day know his real name. I will now endeavor to give them to you, with their explanations. Adonai, signifying (Supreme Lord.) JeAorvh, (fl’lr’V’) E~oht’m (Supremc Judge.~ Ale, (Powerful) Shcalc,~ (Omnipotent.) Ysebratl&, (Lord of Hosts,) Ozi, (Mightiness.) Gs’bour, (Strength) Al&ad, (only one.) These, my brother, compose 888 letters and 75 namu which are like the ineffable name to be found in the mysteries of the Cabala, and the angels alphabet.” I presume my brother that you are unacquainted with the mysteries, but they will be fully explained to you
when you attain the degree of Perfection,” and having now done with the Delta and its awful characters, I will endeavor to give you an explanation of the meaning of the Great Circle” which surrounds it, It rcpresents masonically as all circles do, the immensity of the power of God, which bath neither beginning nor end. You also perceived in the Sanctum Sanctoruni a luminous circle enclosing a brilliant star of five points with the letter 0 in the center: The meaning of which is thus described: Glory, Grandeur and Gomel, from which we understand, by Glory, God; by Grandeur, the man who may be great by perfection, and by Gomel, a Hebrew word which signifies, thanks to God, for his supreme power; it is the first word which Adam spoke on discovering the adorable Eve. The five beams of the brilliant Star, represent the five orders of Architecture, which adorn the Temple, also the senses of nature, without which no man can be perfect. You also beheld in the Sanctum Sanctoruni the Ark of Alliance, the Golden Candlestick with seven branches, having a lamp in each; also a table. The Ark of Alliance was placed in the middle of the Sanctum Sauctorum under the brilliant star and the shadow of the wings of the Cherubim, which represents the alliance which God made with his people. This Ark of Alliance
UOYMIO.—”Ona o~ ~e names of God. In ‘Exodus vl. IS, the wdid transla. SAwfdM. ‘1W: Illsthsjwforethe same by whIch he was known to the IsraelItes before he eosnmnnleatsd to Moses the Tetragrammaton. The wbrd Is a pluraiis majestatis. and slg’ nIflesalk~efui. omnlpotent.”—Mackey’s Encyolopadla of i’raemasonsp.
~GedAlmIghlsta.bthe&IxIsaI.
Note 31.—”ln the old rituals of the fourth or Secret Master’s de’
gree of the ScottIsh and some other RItes, we Sod this poe’ sage: ‘The Seventy’two names, like the • name of the DIvIn. Ity, are to be takes to the Kabbaltetle Tree and the Angels’ Alphabet.” The Kabbalistie Tree Is a name gIven by the Kahhalists to the arrangement of the ten Sephiroth, (whlcit in.) The Angels’ Alphabet Is called by the Hebrews O~)Ofl ~
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writing of the angels OsEsrelsa3a. (Oul*5. lncsls.. eb. xIS. %)
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stars, accordIng to the opInIon of the Hebrew writers. are ranged Is the hesYcos In the form of letters, and that It Is possIble to read those whatsoever of importance Is to happen throughout the unIverse. AsS
the great EnglIsh Hermetic philosopher. Robert Plod, says. In blo Apolcey for the Brethren of the Nosy Cross. that there see characters in the heayens formed from the disposition of the stars, Just as geometrIc lines and ordInary letters are formed from poInts; and he adds, that those to whom God has granted the hidden knowledge of reading these aharacters wIll also know not only whatever Is to happen, hat all the secrets of phllcoophy. The letters thus arranged In the form of stare are called the Angels’ Alphabet. They heyc tha’ power and artIculatIon hut not the form of the Hebrew letttrs, and the Kabbalista say that In them McOee wrote the tables of the law. The astrologers, and after thou the alchemists, made much use of thIs alphabet; and Its Introductlcm Into any of the high degree rItuals Is an evldesce of the Influence alerted on these degrees by the Hermetic phlloeoPh~.”—Maekey’a Enoyals. peedia of irsemasanry. Article Alphabet, ~..g.I.
Vote SS.—”The first degree conferred in the Ladge of Parfection.
eotch Masosry, and the fourth 04~ea former, the ~talogue who Is styled of that Meat system. Pou~ There Isrepresente a MasterSolomon and a Warden. osful. coming to the temple to elect seven skillful workmen to succeed HIram AblE; the latter, entitled Grand inapector, egpresonts Adonlram. The hangings are black, strewed wIth tears. The
hdge hon Si lIghts.’‘—Morris’ Masonic DIctionary, Article Som Nesting. Vote 3S.—”In the ohacieto lectures of the old Dngllsh system, It was said that ‘the cIrcle has ever been consIdered symbolical of the Pelty; as a circle appears to hav, neIther begInnIng nor end, It ~y be ~tly consIdered a type of God, without eIther. boylnoing of days or end. ~ofyeers.’”—Mackey’s Encyclopedia of lmamsaonry, Artiolo Glide.
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was of the form of a parallelogram two cubit. and a hail in length, one and one-half cubit. in breadth, ana the same in height, made of shittim wood covered within and without with gold, decorated With a golden crown, and borne by two Cherubim of gold. The cover of the Ark had a name which ws cafled Propstiaforg or place that served to appease God’s anger. 8aid Propitiatory contained the testimony which God gave to Moses—The tablets of the Law. Said tablets were of white marble and contained the Decalogue written in Hebrew characters. The commandments taught, and were disposed of am the tablets as follows: The first four pointed out the obligations of man to his God, and were engraved on the first tablet. The remaining six pointed out the obligations of njan to nian, and were engraved on the second tablet. The commandments on the different tablets were distinguished in this wise: Those of the first collectively taken, formed the Divine Law; those of the se~nd the Moral Law; the tables were used to plac~ thereon the twelve loaves of unleavened bread, which must be always in the presence of the Divinity agreeable to his comniand to Moses. These loaves of unleavened bread were made of the purest of flour, and were placed six on the right hand and six on the left, forming two heaps, above which was placed a bright ewer filled with incense, as a memento to us of the obligations made to God. The name of the Sanctum Sanctorum in Hebrew is Dabir, and it was there the Divinity resided, and where he delivered his commandments to Moses. Moses by the help and command of God, constructed
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the Ark, and for that purpose he chose to assist him Bezaleel, of the tribe of Judah, son of Un and Miriam, sister to Moses and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach of the Tribe of Dan, the. most learned of people. The Israelites testified so much ardour for the works and offered with so much zeal to carry on Ihe same, that Moses proclaimed by sound of trumpet that he wanted no more. They worked after the model which God had given unto Moses, and also instructed him in the number and form of the sacred vessels which were to be made and placed in the tabernacle to serve in the sacrifices. The seven3’ branched Candlestick alludes to the seven planets. The Eye over the door of your Lodge, represents the Bye of God, to whose name our works are dedicated, and from whose inspection our actions can never be concealed. The galleries of the Temple were ascended by a staircase in the form of a screw. There was only one door in the Sanctum Sanctorum, on the east side called Zi Za, which was covered with Gold, Purple, Hyacinthe and Azure, which represented the four Elements. My brother, your age as a Secret Master is 81 years. your pass-word is Zi Za, and it affords me much aatisfac~ to find you have paid such strict attention to the ceremonies of this degree, and I hope also, my brother, you will treasure up in your mind the rith fruits of our Sublime Mysteries, and I also flatter myself from your merit and perseverance that you will soon be capacitated to deserve the summit of our knowledge in receiving the Degree of Perfection, wherein you will be presented with the splendid reward of all your labors. Vote 3t—”The symbolic seven Is to be found dIfflased In a hundred ways over the whole Masosic system.”—.MaokQ’e Eseylopedia of Free. maeomv. Article Severn,
fIISTORICAL ANALYSIS FOURTH OR SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE. How Masonry got Its tItle “The Royal Art”—1.odgery and Poperey over.
CLOSING CEREMONIES SECRET MASTER’S DEaRER.
Solomon—Brother Inspector, pray what’s the clock? Adoniram—The end of the day. Solomon—What does there remain to do? Adoniram—To practice virtue, shun vice and reniain silent.” Solomon—Since there remains no more to do than to practice virtue and shun vice, let us again enter into silence, that the will of God may be done and accomplished. It is time to ~i,es1,Brother Inspector, give notice by the mysterious numbers that the lodge is going to be closed. A doniram—( Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with his hands.) All— (Strike seven times, 000 000 0 with their hands.) Solomon—(Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with his hands after which he gives the sign of silence, which the brethren answer and the lodge is closed.) Vote SS.—”The duty of a Secret Master Is to keep S carsfnl wat* over the conduct of the Craft In general: to raactiee virtue, shnn vies. and remaIn In sIlence.“—Messy’s Unsyolepedie mad Diolimery of bee.
meseW. A~ beret Master.
throw Cromwell’s Commonwealth—SImllsrIty of MasonIc Jugglery and l’riestcraft—The HIgher Degrees Invented by French JesuIts and TheIr instruments—Secrecy and SubjectIon the Chief Elements of Lodgery end Popery—Freemasonry a RelIgIous Pestllence—OuerrlIIs Gen. Pike. Most PuIssant SovereIgn Orsnd Commander—who but a JesuIt could Invent ench a Degree as the Secret Muter’s ?—“Oue Stupendous De’ monalcal Possemion.”
The Stuart Dynasty had fallen. The stream of English popular liberty, from incipient jury trial under Alfred; through Magna Charta under John; and the overthrow of Priests and Monasteries by Henry VIII; had flowed steadily onward, but it had met an ice-gorge in the house of Stuart; the meanest of monareha and of men. But the dam was broken and the stream rushed on. Charles I, had been beheaded for treason to his people, (1649.) His son Charles II, was driven an exile into France; but being a Secret Papist, he joined the Freemasons and regained his throne by the secret union of French Papists and English Masons. This gave to Masonry the title of “The Rogal Art.” (Hume’s England II, 606 and Rebold, p. 54.) His brother James II, an open Papist, reigned three years as a weak despot; then threw the Mace into the Thames and fled from hi~ throne and people to the Freneh Monarch;, “the eldest Son of the Romish Church.” The Freneh wags called him “‘The Simpleton who lost three Kingdoms for a mass.” This weak Stuart, like his brothcr Charles, was “accepted” as a Mason; took up his head-quarters at the
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Jesuit’s College of Clermont; and, for a while, plotted to regain his throne, but died thirteen years after his abdication (1688), at the Palace of St. Germain in 1701. His Son, the Young Pretender Charles Edward, followed his father and grandfather into the lodge; became Grand Master of the Chapter of Herodem; (Mackey Encyc. Art. Stuart Masonry) and, by the sale of Charters to French and English and Irish Masons, with aid from the French Monarch, raised means to invade England by way of Scotland. But the Protestant throne of Wilhia~n and Mary stood firm, and still stands, in spite of Popery and the lodge. But by restoring the second Charles and overthrowing Cromwell’s Commonwealth, the twin evils, Popery and Lodgery, put back public morals and popular liberty in England a full century. Both are unmitigated despotisms—Both set up a false standard of morals;—and both set aside Christ. Masonry promises to save men by its jugglery, and Popery sends men for salvation, not to Christ, but to a priest. But, how can this be; since, in 1738, Pope Clement XII issued his bull against the Freemasons and its authority continues in forc~; has been endorsed by Popes since, and enforced by Councils and Priests ~ ANswREs—The question is not how it can be, but Is it true that the higher degrees of Masonry are of Popish origin? This must be settled by proof. The world knows that James II, a declared Papist, fled to France in 1688, where he died thirteen year. afterward. “‘Lenning says, after his flight to France and during his residence at the Jesuit College of Clermont, his adherents, among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated certain
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degrees with the design of carrying out their political views.” This is taken from Mackey’s Encyclopedia, Article Stuart Masonry, and there is no higher Masonic authority. Another standard Masonic author, (Macoy, Cyc. Art. Scotch Rite) says: “The degrees of this Rite are, for the most part, fabricated from the system invented by Ramsay.” This Ramsay a brilliant young Scotchman, apostatized to Popery. He was twenty years old when James II. fled to France. Ramsay followed him and became lutor to his sons. He became also an “instrument of the Jesuits,” (Rebold Gen. Hist. p. 161,) in adding upper degrees to simple York Masonry, and so to draw English Masons into a conspiracy to overturn the throne of William and Mary and bring in despotism and the Stuarts. Having amassed a large fortune by his Scotch thrift, royal patronage, and the sale of Masonic rites and dignities, he offered to enrich his relatives in Scotland, doubtless hoping to draw them into his Stuart Masonry, along with the Jesuits, but they scorned him, and rejected his proffered wealth. lie then tried to introduce his Masonry into England but was repulsed; went back to France, and died at Pointoise in 1743. (See his life in Mackey’s Cyclopedia.) Thus it is proved that the first higher degrees of Masonry were invented by French Jesuits and their “Instruments.” And thus is explained “how it can be” that Popery can, at once, prohibit and permit the Lodge. As, with Jesuits, “the end sanctifles the means ;“ Masonry is right when seeking to enthrone Popery; and wrong when its oaths of secrecy interfere with the Confessional, and its dues diminish Peter’s Pence. But the point is proved, if history can prove anything, “that the
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higher degrees of Masonry ;“ so-called, are of Popish origin, invented by Jesuits to destroy Protestantism and popular liberty in Europe. And thus is fulfilled, the symbolic prophecy of Rev. 13th Chapter. The first beast being Rome pagan, and the second Rome Papal. And the Secret Lodge System is a shadowy “image” of the iron dcspotism of Rome, made by “them that dwelL on. the earth” promiscuously; not by churchmen, or any one nationality, but by everybody at large; civilized; barbarous and savage, as we see at the present day. American Masons are not ashamed to boast that barbarians are their brethren, and that their lodge religion is the natural religion of mankind, thus annihilating the Christian religion and ignoring Christian civilization. The namcs givcn by the French to their higher orders are Popish. “Chapter,” “Templar,” “Knight” “Council,” are all Popish names, first invented by Priests; while “the Image” outdoes the beasts themselves (Pagan and Papal Rome) in the grandiloquence of its titles, and the garishness of its regalia. But the identity of these religions of Antichrist is not merely outward but inw&rd and moral; the chief elements being secrecy and despotism. September 27th, 1540, Pope Thiul III, established “The Society of Jesus, called Jesuits.” God has said, Isa, 48, 16, “I have not spoken in secret from the beginning,” and Christ repeated, “In secret have I said nothing.” Jno. 18, £0. The secrecy of the Jesuits (Secreta monita) was impenetrable, and Lefevre when told he would die if he attempled to travel, as he was ordered to do, answered, “It is not necessary that I should live; but it is necessary I should obey.” He went—and died. These .two pillars in the temple of Anti-christ, viz., Secrecy
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and Subjection, appear in every “stronghold” of the devil on’ earth; from the Vatican to the Purroh in an African bush. “We require,” said Powderly, “Secrecy and obedience.” Wherever these are, however flitting and wavering, there is an “Image of the Beast.” But Ramsay boldly copied the lineamenta of the Beabt. We read: “He endeavored to obviate the objections of the French nobility to the mechanical origin (Stone Masons) of the institution (Masonry) by asserting that it arose in the Holy Land during ihe Crusades.” (Macoy Art. Ramsay.) That this origin of Masonry was known to be false made no difference. Degrees, Chapters and Rites sprung up by thousands and spread like pestilence, until the swindle was likely to fail by it~ cheapness, and the religious imposture by its insipidity —dispensing with Christ. Then began the struggle to condense, stratify and monopolize. Ramsay made a Rite of six degrees. Each adventurer strove to overtop, charter, tax, and govern all others. In 1758, this struggle produced at Paris a “Council of Emperors of the East and West.” Its adepta styled themselves “Sovereign Prince Masons”.—”Substitutes General of the Royal Art”—”Grand Superintendents and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem.” Its Rite consisted of twenty-five degrees. (Macoy, p. 188.) Four years previous, De Bonneville had instituted a “Rite of Perfection.” in the Jesuit College, containing these same twenty-five degrees; but this Rite of Perfection was merged in The Council of Emperors of the East and West.” (Mackey Encyc.) No reason for the merging is given. Four years after its origin, in 1761, this “Council of Emperors” empowered a Jew named Stephen Morin,
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who was coming to America, to act as “Inspector General” of all the higher lodges of Masonry in the New World. His commission ran: “We do recognize our dearest brother, Stephen Morn, as our Grand Maeter Inspector to establish Perfect and Sublime Masonry in every part ~f the world.” (Folger’. History of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, p. 81, Document..) This Jew came, via San Domingo, to Charleston, S. C., and finding that it paid established a lodge of “Inspectors General.” Of the first sixteen Inspectors whom ho appointod, thirteen were Jews, as was Morn himself. The three who were not Jews, were Col. John Mitchell, Col. Provost and Dr. Frederick Daicho.” (Folger’. Hi.. p. 88.) And Folger adds: (Same page) “If history speaka correctly, Morin and his co-adjutors found manufacturing Masonic degrees and the sale of Masonic dignities, a very profitable and lucrative undertaking. They pursued it diligently, making all the money they could from the traflic.” (This is from the latest “History of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite by Robert B. Folger, Past Master 33, ex-Secretary General, etc., New York, 1881.”) As no honest Jew goes above the Master Mason’s degree on account of his religion, these thirteen Jews were mere lodge gamblers. And with Mitchell, Provost and Daleho, they took Morn’s twenty-five degrees, which constituted the Rite of Perfection, (all Mcrin was empowered to confer,) added eight more, revised and rearranged the rest, and produced the subject of this volume, that is, “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rile and we read: “On the 31st day of May, 1801, the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree for the United States of
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America, was opened with the high honors of Masonry by Brother John Mitchell and Frederick Daloho, Sovereign Grand Inspector. General.’ This was done in the City of Charleston, S. C., and was, and is, the first Supreme Council of Grand Inspectors General in the world. But what was to be done? “The Council of Emperors” which gave Morn his authority was extinct, and The Grand Orient had received its debris. They forged, or feigned, a constitution dating 1786k given by Fredericic II, of Prussia. (Mack. Encyc.) They made terms wits the Grand Orient, which was now the leading Lodge in Europe, which adopted their Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of thirty-three degree.. And this American invention is becoming the leading Rite of the world. It is thus spoken of by Standard Masonic writers. McClenachan says: “In 1868 this exalted Rite is in the full tide of prosperity and healthful progress. Its sublime teachings find a ready response in every Masonic heart” (His.. p. £1.) And Mackey (Encyc. Art. Scottish Rite) says: “Although one of the youngest Masonic Rites, having been established not earlier than 1801, it is, at this day, the most popular and moat extensively diffused.” Other authorities might be given, and there are no conflicting authorities, as to the popularity and prevalence of this Rite. Whoever carefully reads this sketch will find cause for astonishment and dread. This French Masonry, falsely called Scotch, is a religious pestilence spread and spreading over the most enlightened nations on the globe. It takes its name from clubs of Stone Masons who initiated their Apprentices,Journeymen and Master
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Masons. Four of these clubs, at a London Tavern in 1717, dropped Stone Masonry, ~accepted”all who would pay; started a religion to lit men for heaven without Christ. and thenceforth it took its stand with the false religions of the world; based on lying legends, secrecy, mystery and show. Here the Jesuits took it up, as seen above, to destroy the free agency of men in religion by sworn obedience to unknown superiors. The Jesuits had existed since 1540 by the same principles of secrecy and abject submission and so blended readily with the London Lodge. But England was Protestant and had read the Bible. The London, York Rite, three degree Lodge of English Masons, could not be used to restore the Papists, Charles II, James II, and his sons, and destroy stubborn English liberty. The Jesuits took up these exiles; added upper degrees to govern English Masons; succeeded in restoring Charles II, but foiled to restore James and his sons. But the degrees they invented and used for the most infamous of purposes, were hardened into a “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Morn, with twelve other Jews, sold fo~ money as their fathers sold Christ. But Mitchell, Daicho and Provost, who were not Jews, altered and spliced theit “Rite of Perfection’ into The Ancient and Accepted Scot tieh Rite of Thirtythree de rees. They then sentihis monstrous production of fraui, falsehood, treachery, treason and blasphemy back to Europe. The Grand Orient, which has since expunged from its Ritual, “God and the Immortality of man,” adopted this monster Rite and spread it over Europe; while, in this country, its Supreme Grand Commander is the infidel traitor, the Guerrilla General Albert Pike, whose initiated Indians massacred Union troops at Pea Ridge. But those who imagine that the crushing of popular liberty in Europe and America is the chief end and object of Masonry, wholly mistake its nature and drift. Like that unclean religion whose temple was in Eph. eons; whose goddess, it was said, “all Asia and the’
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world worsliippeth ;“ the lodge is a conspiracy against God; made by him who waged war in Heaven. Overturning governments; crushing out liberty; these are but its by-play. In the words of its chief authority, Mackey, its intent is to establish on this earth the “Religion in which all mankind agree.” To put the pure worship of Almighty God through Christ, on a moral level with the worships of horses in Japan; of moitkeys in Hin~booatan; and of snakes, devils and gorillas in Africa. Let us now analyze this “Secret Masters” degree; the first of the Jesuit degrees, and fourth of the Scottish Rite. All the Rites rest on the three old Stone Mason degrees; else they would lose the name of Masons. The legend or lie on which this degree rests, is, that Sqlomnon, after the death Hiram Abifi, appointed seven Secret Masters to take the place of the dead one. Their persons might be known but their functions were secret. This is truly a Jesuit’s degree. What body of men, unless they were Jesuits, would allow seven of their number to supervise them secretly? How would such men know what to esteem, right or wrong, till they felt the bludgeon or the poniard of the “Secret Master.” Who but a Jesuit could have invented such a degree? The Ritual is mostly taken from the Old Testament which Ramsay had studied in Scotland, and Jews and Jesuits could assist in forming it. The drapery of the lodge robed everything in black, spotted with tears; the Holy of Holies, the candlestick. of seven lights, are used to inspire awe. The whole Ritual is worship; the Bible is extensively quoted. Responses given; “0 Lord, have mercy upon us,” etc., are often repeated. The scenery is solemn and expensive. The Christless prayer asks that the candidate “may prepare” t& receive the impress of the Holy Name and be fitted for immortality. And the import of the whole solemn mummery is summed up in the following question and answer:
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“What are you taught as a Secret Maeterr “Th. duty of secrecy and silence.” And, having sported awhile with “the holy place. made with hands, which are the figures of the true,” which the Jewish High Priest alone could enter once a y,~ar, “not witAout blood,” so that familiarity might not breed contempt, and having been told that “the natural law is the word of God, which is written on the heart of every man that cometh into the world; which denies, i.s toto, the doctrine of redemption by Christ, and regeneration by the Holy Ghost; the lodge closes with a dirge and mock funeral, pretending to deposit the heart of a dead man in the Holy of Holies, having put the candidate on his knees, an& exacted the perpetually recurring promise of concealment from him, the farce ends with seven raps of the gavel. What is the true meaning and import of this travesty of methods, long since laid aside, by which God brought our race, while ignorant as grown up babes, to reverence and obey a pure law and to trust in the sacrifice of Christ? The meaning and intent of this’ vile counterfeit, considered as a device of Satan, is: 1. To indurate and harden the human heart by praeticing religious ceremonies without any religion. Nothing hardens men like this. 2. To put and keep men in the attitude of receptivity to spirit influence. The whole lodge ceremony is a prolonged prayer to the devil 8. To keep the mind buBy while the heart grow hard, as in bead-counting, genufiexions and crossings in the Romish Church; and in the endless ceremonies of paganism. 4. To keep the masses stupid while the cunning man. age them. Thus this fourth grade of the present universal Masonry, and the twenty-nine degrees to follow, as Dr. Dumming has said of the Papacy, is one stupea. dous demonaical poseeasion.”
CHAPTER V FIFTH OR PERFECT MAsTER’s’ DEGREE.
“This grade was originally established as a grateful tribute of respect to the memory of a departed worthy brother.” Its ritual and lectures furnish many interesting details of the mode of his interment, and the honors paid to his memory. The ceremonies are gloomy and funereal, and well calculated to fill the mind with solemn thoughts In this grade are held the lodge of sorrow and are performed the funeral ceremonies of any brother of the Sublime Degrees. There is a lengthy esoteric history, belonging to this grade. DECORATIONS.
This lodge is adorned in the same manner as in the preceding degree, with the following additions: First—The altar on which the urn was placed is overspread by a canopy of green and gol8. Second—In the south-west is a monument of white and black marble, surmounted by an urn traversed by a sword, and adorned with a sprig of acacia, and flanked by 16 columns and surrounded by a balustrade. The monumental inscription is H. ~.Z...J... The compass on the Altar is graduated, the monuNote N.—(NaItz, le’fait.) ‘Ike fifth degree Is the hneleut and h~eented Scottish Rite. The cewemonlee of this degree were orlgluafl established as a grateful tribute of respect to a worthy departed broth. a,. The omeers of the Lodge are a MactM, who reurseenis Admires, the Inspector of the works at Mount !.ebanou. .ini one werden.”—’. Maohe~’a Z.qala~adIa of 1,eemasoaxy. Aztiele Perfect Master.
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ment is triangular, and on each side is a rough stone. There is a table before the East, covered with black and strewed with tears.” The master represents the noble Adoniram,”, Grand Inspector of King Solomon, he is styled Thrice Respectable Master; he is decorated with the ornaments of Perfection and Prince of Jerusalem and sits under a canopy, holding a setting maul There is only one warden, seated in the West, who represents Stolkin, and is styled Grand Inspector. He wears a black robe and cap, together with the order and jewel of the grade. The Master oi Ceremonies reprcscnts Zerbal,” Captain of King Solomon’s Guards. lie is decorated with a green ribbon round his neck in the form of a collar, to which hangs the jewel. DRESS” :~Black robe and cap; white gloves and white apron, with green flap. On the apron is painted or em-
broidered three concentric circles, within which is a cube stone, with the lAter “Z” upon it. oman :—Is of a watered green” color at the ~nd of which is suspended the JEWEL:“—Which is a compass, open at the segment of a graduated circle, at an angle of 60 degrees. All the brethren are decorated in the same manner as Zerbal. BATTERY :—..Four equi-timed knocks; 0000.
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Note tt,—”In the Master’s degree to some of the eontt• Rites. end in all the high degrees Where the leiCtid of the degree end the cetemoiiy of reception are inteflded is’ ~ express grief, the hangings of the Lodge are black streWit with tears. The figures representing tears era in the form depicted In the annexed cut. The symbolism is borrov.ed from the science of heraldry. where these figures are celled guttes. and are defined to he “drops of anything that Is by nature liquid or liquefied by art.” The heralds hs,e six of thest charges. yin., yellow, or drops of liquid gold; white, or drops of liquid shyer’ red or drops of blood; blue. or drops of teers’ black, or drops of pitch; sod green, or drops of oil. In funeral hatellments. a black velyat cloth. sprinkled with these “drops of tears,” Is placed in front of the house of a deceased nobleman end thrown oeer his bier; but there, is In liasonry. the guttes Se lames, or drops of tears, era not psinted blue. but white.”—Maokey’5 Eacyolopadia of Freemasonry. Article Thays. Note IS.—”Adoniram plsys an important role in the Masonic slsietn. esPeclull~[ 4lIt the high degrces.”—Mackey’e EnOy~lopUdiA of Freemasonry, oniram~ nental
Note 30.—”Zerbai, (Scotch Maaonry.)—A name introduced In Scotch Masonry, in the degree of Perfect Master. Elect of Nine, and otbs’ra. The nitme is not historical. “—.-Morria’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Zerba,. Note U,—”The apron is white, with a green flap; sod to the middle of the ap ron must he embroidered or psinted, within three circles, a cubiesl stone. In the center of which the totter 3 is inscribed. accnrdin( to the old ritusis; but the fiamarilso yeS end he according to the rilus. of the Southern .turisdiction. —Mackey’s incyoiopisdia of Vraemaaoary. &sticie Perfect Master.
AGE —One year at opening and seven at closing,
together eight years. nouu OF WORK “—Open at four and close at evening. MORAL: “—That we should learn to pay due respect to the memory of a deceased worthy brother. Note 8l.’—.”Tbe symbolic color of the degree is green, to remind the Perfect Master that. heing dead in rice. he must hope to reylee in rirtue.’‘—Macke,. Zacyclopadje of Freemasonry, Article Perfect Master. Note U.—”Hla jewel Is a compels extended sixty degrees, to teach him that he should act within zuessure. sod erer pay due regard to patice and equlty.”—Maaksy’a EacyOlopadia of Freemasonry Article Masteg. Note 8S.—”A a. Ix?. Hours of work—open at four: close at close of dsr’—Moxrte’ RLaenic DIctionary, Article Perfect Master. rote S4.—¶’he lesson is that we should ~57 doe respect to the memo~’ of s deceased worthy brother.”.....No~p,~’ Masoato Dlcticeaty, Ar. erfect Master,
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men to labor; give notice that this lodge of Perfect Masters” is open. ,Stoikin—Brethren, you will please take notice that the lodge of Perfect Masters is open. Adoninwa—(Strikes one and the lodge is seated.)
OPENING CEREMONIES PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.
Adoniram—(Four raps 0000.) Brother Inspector, I, the lodge tyled and are we all Perfect Masters? Btolkia—Thrice Respectable Master, we are all Perfect Masters and the lodge is tyled. Adoniram—Brother Inspector, give notice that I am going to open this lodge of Perfect Masters,” Stolkin—Brethren, you will please take notice that riur Thrice Respectable Master is going to open this lodge of Perfect Masters.
Adoi,iram—(Strikes 0000.) Stolkin—(Strikes 0000.) Secrelar,j—(Strikes 0000.) Treasurer— (Strikes 0000.) All the brethren rise and make the sign of admiration together. a Ado,iiram—Brother~ Inspector, pray what’s the clock? Sgolkin—Thrice Respectable Master, it is four. Adoniram—Since it is four, it is time to set the workNote 35.—”1’hs 5th degree of tha Ancient and Accepted rIte. The legend of this degree Ia founded upon the circumstances of ICing Solo. won’s efforts In mtabiisblng appropriate obsequies as a gratefoi tribute at res’~ct to the memory of a worthy departed brother. The Mastag Ia sty Most Venerable, and npreaeuts Adoniram. The hangings are green; In each corner of the room is a white column; the altar is co,ered with a black cloth strewed with tears. Tha apron Ia white lamb. akin, lined and bordered with green; in tha center of which Ia pointed. within three circles, a square stone, on which the letter I Ia inscrikel; the flap of the apron Is green. symbolicaily to remind the neophyte that. heing deed in vice. he must hope to reylys in vIrtue. The jewel Ia a eompass open to sixty degrees, the points on the are of a circle.”— Maee~s Mawslegaaila aM lietie.aV at F,eemaaem~, Aetisle 1esf~
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Mote S4.—”(flootch Meso.zy’)—The second degree conferred in the Lodge of Perfection, Scotch Masonry, and the fifth upon the estalogus at that system. There Is a master, who Is styled Might worshipful and flmpectable. and one warden, styled Grand Inspector. The forms, represents Adonlram, the latter, fitolkin, The degree oommemoratee a departed worthy brother, The hangings are green. There are two pyra. aide at north and south, The jewel Is a gold compase eztends4 to sixty degrees. The apron fa white, with the mo,ahis part green, Upon the former It daUneated, within three circles, a cubit stone, exhihiling the letter 1 over a sprig of peecia.”—Ngs,Ig’ Masamie Diotlsmasy~ Astlole ~erfeet Master.
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CHAPTER VI FIFTH OR PERFECT MMTU’S Duouzu. INITIATIOfI, PREPARATION OF CA~DIDATR.
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Zerl,~tl Proceeds to the Ante-chamber, and having prepared the candidate as a Secret Master, leads hun by the green cord which he puts around his neck, to the door of the lodge, and there knocks four. Stolkin—Thrice Respectable Master, there is an alarm at the door. Adoniraan—Brother Inside Guardian, inquire who knocks. Inside Guardiaiz—(Knocks four, and opens the door.) Who knocks? Zerbal—One who has helpo’i to build a monument to hiram and who desires to know the circle and its quadrature.
Inside Guardian—Thrice Respectable Master, it is one who has helped to build a monument to Hiram and who desires to know the circle and its quadrature. Adoniraeit—Let him be led in. maid. Guardian—Let him be led in. Zerbal then leads the Candidate by the green cord into the lodge, and up to the Altar. Zerbal—Thrice Respectable Master, I now lead into your presence by the green cord of hope, one who has helped to build a monument to Hiram.
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Adoniram—What Monument, Brother Zerbal? Zerbal—Thrice Respectable Master, the plan which agreeable to the decree of Solomon the Wise, you had the glory of designing, having been confided to me, I chose our most skillful and Worthy Masters, and set them at work upon the most precious materials, and we have erected the beautiful obelisk to the memory of him whose death was so untimely and cruel. Adoniram—With what tools did you work? Zerbal—With the Graduated Compass, which ena abled us to measure and limit our labors with exact precision so that all might be justly adapted. Adoiziram—By what science did you use this instrument? Zerbar—By’ the science of the Circle and Quadrature. Adoniram—What Circle? Zerbai—A sane mind. Adoniram—What is the Quadrature? Ze,’bal—A sane body. Adoniram—Does the Candidate possess these two qualities fitly joined and balanced? Zerbal—He does. Adoniram—Then lead him with us to the mausoleum you have erected, that I~ may behold your work. Adoniratn—(Strikes four, all rise.) Rise brethren and accompany me. (A procession is then formed with Adoniram and Stolkin’ at the head, Zerbal and Candidate nest, and then the Brethren. When they arrive at the Mausoleum, they form a half circle, raise their bands in admiration and exclaim, “Jehovah,”] Note 87.—”In the elu degrees this Ia t1~c name of one of thoee ap. pointed to search for the crimluale commemorated In the legend of the third degree. It is impossible to trace Its derivation to any flebrew root. It may he an anagram of a name, perhaps that of one of the friends or the house of Stuart.”—Maoksy’s ~cyolopudis of Freemsionry. Article Stolkin,
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.tdoninzm—Brother Zerbal, what feeling induced th building of this Mausoleum? Zerbal—P.espect for the dead Adoniram~—Why respect for the dead? Zerbal—Because the dead body was ‘the dwelling sad sanctuary of th~ soul, because the Grand Architect of the Universe made man in his own image, and because our mortal members are the it instruments of an immortal mind.
Adonirtzm—Brother Zerbal, explain the design and emblems of this monument to the candidate. Zerbal—The circle or balustrade which aurrounds this obelisk signifies that man has personal rights, which every other is bound to respect: The Sixteen columns four by four, at the four corners, are the physical virtues ‘which should adorn the person of every. Perfect Master, and harmonize with his conscience, which we thus explain: b (I.e Agility Strength &cond Re.istsn~ I s—sd Velocity Precision Third Courage Adroitness Energy ~ ~Fbufth
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Mote 66.—The steels in the mythic aystem of ?seeinasonIl. 15 pe-emlneoti.’ the symhol of the immortalIty of the saul—that impootaM doettine which it Is the gres~~~eel~ of the Instltnilon to teach.”— Mackeys Enoynlopudia ot , Article Aonob.
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treasures, or moral conscience, or immortal soal, the body of man contains. The Sword proclaims the unrelenting enmity we have sworn to the assassins: Ignorance, Falsehood and i~gotism, and H.. Z.~. 3.’. records, fii~t, the name of our Masonic Master, second, the name of our Secret Master and third, the name of our Eternal Master in Heaven, and the three united compose the perfect alliance, which makes the perfect man. Adoniram—Brother Zerbal, I congratulate you and your companion; all is perfect and complete. To express my gratitude and to reward you both I will now recognize this brother to be a Perfect Master upon his taking the oath which obligates every Perfect Master in the world. Is he willing? Zerbal—He is. Adoniram—Right Worthy Brother, you will then teach this brother to travel. Zerbal then conducts him four times around the lodge and every time he passes the East he gives one of the signs, beginning with the Entered Apprentice, each one in rotation, (See page 77.) During his traveling the following is rehearsed: SCRIPTURE RECITATION.
“Remember now they Creater in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. While the Sun or the Moon or the Stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the raiil: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow them~lves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way, and
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the almond tree shall flourish and tile grass-hopper shall be a burden, aiid desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets: or ever the silver cord be loosed; or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitdier be broken at the fourtain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the Spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” On the last round candidate is conducted to the tomb, ‘md while he and Zerbal are viewing it, the following I. sung by the brcthl~cn:
pee to any below the same, unless properly authorized bymy superiors. That I will defend my rights and respect the rigllts of others. That I will strive to regenerate and improve my physical ‘organization so it may become the fit instrument of a pure soul and elevated mind and be adorned by all the vigor, grace, llealth and beauty it can possibly attain. I further promise to respeet the dead, and finally on earth and in my body to build a suitable monument unto Truth and Jehovah. So may God keep me in righteousness and equity. Amen. Adonirarn—’Tis well my brother. (He then takes the end of the cord and draws it from his neck.) I divest you of the last ligature which betokens servitude and greet you with the sign of Recognition of a Perfect Master on condition you will faithfully observe every thing prescribed by onf laws.
SONO. Come, ye sighing Boos of sorrow. view with me your brothers tomb: Learn from It your fate; to-morrow Death. i,erhsve, may seal your doom. 5ad itod solemn Sow oar numbers.
While ,llsoonsolate we mourn The loss of him who sweetly slum~ hers. ?.loulleriisg neath the silent urn. May we all. bIn hopes pomseasing. Trli,niplnstnt lesre the lodge below; Crnus’.,l nlih every earthly blessing lor reutoved from pain and woe. Osie’. when full of life. he ne,i’r P eyed us,faithfol to her laws. !il.iv ue. like him-, be sealons ever. To promote the gl~tIoua coust To the Er~alted power Almighty. ~4.•ttlybreathe en ardent prayer us, ls~’ sacred mound tread lightly While we wipe the felling t,’ur
A donira,n—Th~other Zerbal, you will now conduct the candidate to tile altar where he will kneel and take the obligation. OBLIGATION PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.
I—do promise and swear in tile presence of the (‘~rand Architect of the Universe and this respectable ~ I hod gelnever to colflmunicate the secrets of this de-
SIGN OF RECOGNITION.
Advance each the toes of the right foot until they meet, bring the right knees together, place one hand on the ether’s heart, then bring the ha~ d towards the right side ana torm a square.
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IRENUCT x&wru a DEGREE.
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SIGN 01 ADMIRATION.
Raise the hands and eyes to heaven, then let the arms fall across the abdomen and look downwards.
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Sign of Admiratiol.
Clinch each other as in Master’s grip, carry left hand between each others shoulders and press four times hard with the fingers in the back and give the Master’s Word [mah-hah-bone.]
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Place one the left hand on the each other’s rigbt hand, the thumb separate. other’s right shoulder, seize
equl-timed strokes, :—Make a square by walking four steps and bring the feet together at each step. PASSWORD :—Acacia. SACRED WORD :—Jekovak. THE JEWEL :—Is a graduated compass set at sixty degrees, and with it I now invest you. Adoidrem—(To lodge) Brethren be seated. Adoniram.—(To candidate) My brother you will now be conducted by Brother Zerbal to a seat in the [lodgeI and listen with attention to our lecture in this degree. MARCH
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Adoniram—Brother Stolkin,” are you a Perfect Master? Stollcin—I have seen the circles and the square placed on the two columns across. Adoniram—Where were they situated? Stolkin—On the place where the body of our Respectable Master Hiram Abiff was deposited. Adoi&iram—.What do these columns represent? Stoilcin—The columns of Jachin and Boaz which I have passed to obtain the degree of Perfect Master. Adonirarn—In what part of the Temple were the pillars erected? Stolkin—In the porch. Adoniram—Have those words any meaning? Stolkin—Thrice Respectful Master, they have; the first is Cemented, the second is Strength. Besides the beauty which they added to the building, they conveyed to the minds of those who entered a knowledge of the divine attributes of that Being to whom the Temple was dedicated. The Entered Apprentices were called after the name of the first column, at which place they met and received their wages. The Fellow .Crafts bore the name of the second column for the same reason. Adonirarn—What was Solomon’s intention in creating this degree? Stolicin—To excite the brethren to an active inquiry after the bloody ruffians who had assassinated our dear Master Hiram Abiff, the names of whom they were then ignorant of, but suspected they were among the workmen, Solomon ordered a strict and general search to be made Note 89.—”Stolkfn. (Scotch Macoury.)—A name introduced In Scotch Mosonry. In the ,kgrecs of Pcrteci Master. Itleet of Nine. Master Itiect of Fifteen. and others. It in not blstorlcaL”—MoniS Kaaouio Diatien. eq. Article Stolkin.
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them; and when he found that three of the number were missing whom they supposed to be guilty, he desired Adoniram to raise a superb monument or tomb at the west end of the Temple and place on the top thereof an urn enclosing the heart of Hiram Abiff well embalmed, of which none had any knowledge but the Perfect Masters. Agreeable to those orders the heart of our dear and much lamented Chief was enclosed in an urn, and placed on the top of the obelisk until vengeance should be accomplished. Through the urn was a naked sword, an emblem of the anxious desire of all the brethren to assist in discovering the assassins and obtaining vengeance. The body was buried in a separate apartmen: from the Temple where Solomen kept his chapter. Adoniram—What have you learned from the degrees you have already passed through ?~ Stolkin—To rule my actions, and purify my heart in order to merit the degree of Perfection. Adoniram—What signifies the square stone in the middle of the circles? Stolicin—It teaches us that our edifice should have for its foundation a perfect stone, that is, that our conduct should be raised on a permanent and imperishable basis that it may stand the time and test of seasons. Adoniram—What is the meaning of these circles? StolIcin-.—They are emblematical of the Divinity, who hath neither beginning nor end. Adoniram—What is the meaning of the letter “J” which is in the center of the square stone? StolA~in—.—It is the initial of the ineffabie name of the Grand Architect of the Universe and of the sacred word of the Perfect Masters. Adotiiram—Pronounce it. Stoilcin—Je&ova&. aliiong
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Adousdram—How were you eceived a Perfect Master? Btollci.i—With the point of a spear to my heart and a halter round my neck. Adoasra,n~~~That occasion the point toyo~ heart? Btolkin—TO cause me to recoflect that 1 ha~ given my word to have it torn from out of my breast if I infringe on my obligation or reveal the secrets of Masonry. Adonimm—Why the halter round your neck? Stolk~n—To teach me that my humble situation should increase as I proceed in U~asonry and virtue. Adom.um~How many signs have you? Btoikin—One by five. ~~ernmm~Why one by five? Stolkita—In remembrance of the five points in my reception. Adoniram~-What do they signify? Stolkin~-The four towns which I made in travelling and fifth of admiration. Adra1fl.~~Wh5t is the meaning of the tomb you passed when you entered this ~lodge1? Stollcina—’Tis the representation of the burial place of Hiram Abiff. AdO%i7atfl~~What signifies the rope that comes from the coffin and extends as far as the Temple? Stolkita—The rope of green which the brethren mads of toraise the body of Hiram P the coffin. Adoniram~What were you taught at entering? Stoilcita—TO alter my ste from Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master, to cross t~e two columns. ~J~~itGmWhy so? Stolkiu~-TO call to my recollections that it has been by passing the first degrees that I have attained the tb. gree of Perfect Master.
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Adoniram—Is there any mystery hi’¶dex’. under this signification? Stolkin—Yes, Thrice Respectable Master, it teaches us that we cannot arrive at the Sanctum Sanctorum but by purity of manners, righteousness of .heart, and the secrets of the first degrees of which they are the school. Adoniram—Why did you enter at the side of the Sanctuary? Stollcin—To teach me to abandoa the common road. Adoniram—What is the color of your lodge? Stolki*—Green. Adornram—Why green? Stollcin—To remind me that by being dead in vice, I must hope to rise to virtue, and by that to attain the last degree, in order to make some progress in the Sublime Science, a knowledge which I hope one day to possess. Adoniram—Who can communicate it to you? Stollcin—t3od alone, whose knowledge is beyond human coxhprehension. Adoniram—What is the meaning of the two pyramids on your left? Stoikin—Egypt, where the sciences first took their rise. A doniram—What signifies your Jewel? Stolkin-—That a Perfect Master should act within measure and always be attentive to justice and equity. Adoniram—What’s your pass-word? Stollcin.—Acacia. Adonirom—What is the meaning of that word? Stollcin—It is the name of the plant that was placed on the grave of Hiram Abiff, and was common about Jerusalem. It is the mimosa nilotica of Linn~us, and belongs to the 23d class and first order called Polygamia.
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Adoniiu~m—Thank you, Brother Stolkin. A doniram—Brother Orator, you will now favor us with the Historical Discourse of this degree.
on the Ihst step ascending towards the Sanctum Sanetorum. At the expiration of nine daya the obelisk being finished, the urn with its contents was deposited on the top of the pedestal. There was also a triangular stone on which was engraven in Hebrew characters I. ~.M..B.. The “I” is the initial of the Ancient Master’s Word, the M.:. B.:. the initials of the new word; [Mah-hah-Bone] also a sprig of Acacia figured on the top. Solomon after this, had all the triangular medals taken f~m the Masters when the Ancient Word was changed to the one we now give in the third degree. The Respectable Hiram Abiff’s body was interred in the middle of a great chamber separate from or under the Temple, with all the honors due to so great a man. It was in this chamber that Solomon used to hold his chapters and confer with Hiram, King of Tyre, on the Mystic Art. Three days after the ceremony was over, Solomon surrounded by all his court went to the Temple and after having the workmen placed in the same position as they were on the day of the funeral, he offered up a prayer to the Almighty, and after having finished he examined the tomb, canopy and repeated triangle, also the letters which were engraven thereon, also the pyramids—when finding every thing properly executed, he gave the sign of admiration, which was repeated by all the brethren. This, my Brother, ends the Historical Discourse of this degree.
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE BY ORATOR.
Respectable and Perfect Brother, newly initiated: Solomon having been informed that the body of Hiram Abiff had been found, was happy in having the poor consolation of beholding his remains. lie gave orders and strict charge to his Grand Inspector, the noble Adoniram, to prepare for the funeral obsequies with pomp and magnificence, and ordered all the brethren to attend with white aproas and gloves; he strictly forbade that tile bloody stains should be washed away until he had wreaked his vengeance on the perpetrators of that horrid deed. The noble Adoniram soon furnished a plan of a stately monument which was executed and perfectly finished in nine days, made of black and white marble. The heart of Hiram Abiff was enclosed in an urn and exposed for nine days on the third step ascending to the Sanctum Sanctorum, previous to the Temple being finished. It was intended that it should be placed on a beautiful obelisk built at the side of the Temple a little to the north of the west door, in order to mark out the place where the murderers had first deposited him in a pit before they removed him to the place where Brother Stolkin found him under the sprig of Acacia. The heart of the excellent Hiram Abiff was embalmed and exposed to public view in the urn, with the sword run through the urn. And there the brethren used to come to express their grief on the oecauion by kneelin4
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Adoniram—Brother Stolkin, pray what’s the clock? 8tolkus—Thi~ice Respectable Master, it is evening. Adenira m.—Since it is evening and the work is finished, it is time to refresh ourselves; give notice that I am going to close this ~ [lodge.J Stolkita~-Respectable and Perfect Brethren, you will pleue take notice that our Thrice Respectable Master is going to close this ~ [lodge.J Adoniram—( Four raps; 0000.) Secretary— (Four raps; 0000.) Trea.urer—(Four raps; 0000.) Adonirarn~—(Makiflg the sign of admiration.) Conaumaitsm Eat. All—Answer in the same manner with sign of admiration and admire the tomb. Adoniram—This ~ [lodge] is dosed.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS FIFTH OR PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.
Pet. of the Origin of Freemasonry—P’urther Proof of its Popish Conneetions—Degrees Fabricated for Political Purposes—The Fpnersi or Lodge-of-Sorrow Ilegree—The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted by Standard Autbors—Steaiing and Mangling the 1VrttIn~a of Otbera— “What a Banter on the Human Race Ia Freemaaonrj.
To understand this degree we must aee where we are. England, the civil bulwark of Protestantiem in Europe, had executed Charles I. Four years before, (1645), his son, and heir apparent, Charles IF, h~ad fled with his mother to France; secretly joined the Papists and Freemasons; and by Popery and ~t1asonry, regained his throne; and Hume, the regular apologist of the Stuarts, says: “His character was, in the main, dangerous to his people and dishonorable to him— self.”(Hume II, 607.) He died .in 1685. All Masonic histories attribute his restoration in 1660, to Masonry, to which he gave the title of “The Royal Art,” because that “it was mainly by its instrumentality that he was raised to the throne and monarchy restored to England.” (Rebold, p. 55.) And Mackey, (En~. Art. Stuart Masonry,) aa do other writers, abundantly confirm that Mason-lodges and the Jesuites were united in uring his restoration. This was fifty-seven years fore the London Grand Lodge bad centralized the Lroc lodges at the Appletree Tavern, 1717. But the public mind had begun to react against the mad whirl of by•3cts.-..Histortc,l tn?estlgatton. howeyer. has clearly demonatrated that the present system of degrees is of comparatlyeiy modern origin, being totally unknown to the craft at the time of the reylyal In I?l7. ~iglnally there was bat ens degree of InlUatlon, the msmsa of Apprentice. Fellow and Moater being merely the designation of classes of Work. men, and not of S a or ge.Au of InItIation.’ —4teinhaeaaeta Pelgia enS Easly Niatory , page US.
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alty, universal corruption and Popery under Charlcs. James II, the runaway king, had followed his mother and brother to Paris. He made his headquarters at “The Jesuits College of Clerniont.” And, says Mackey, “The Jesuits played a very important part in these conferences. Reg~ding the reinstatement of the Smarts, and the extension of the power of the Roman church as identical, they sought at that time to make the society of Freemasons subservient to their ends.” And again: “During his (James’s) residence at the Jesuit College of Clermont, where he remained for some time, his ad. herents, among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated certain degrees, with the design of carrying out their political views.” (Mack?. Ency. Stuart Masonry.) The Papist, Ramuag, whose genius and learning put him at their head, was the prime inventor of these degrees. (See Folger, Mackey and others.) And by scanning the situation we can understand these upper degrees. The first degree, as we have seen, gave each old lodge seven ‘secret Masters,” who, in the relative popular ignorance of that time, could lead the lodges, as with rings in their noses, by inviaible hands. Next came this Second upper degree woven into the whole Rite as The Fifth. It was invented to bury a distinguished Mason, and was adopted as thea funeral, or Lodge-of-Sorrow degree for the whole, (See note 26, p. 69 of this ~olurns.) This provides the burial of a Perfect Master. however vile or corrupt he may have been. The drapery of the lodge is funereal; the black hangings being gouted with painted tear-drops, commonly the only team shed in such funerals, except those produced by grog; as the lodge has often no relation to or interest in the dead mason; but to use his corpse as an excuse f’r an advertising parade, and to hide the meanness of its nature b, the sanctity which attaches to death. The master of ceremonies is called Zerbal, a word says Morris, which “is not historical.” (See note 29.)
THE GIBBERISh
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It is one of the multitude of words invented by Papists, Masons and Mormons which are coined out of nothing, as the words “Herodem,” “Mass,” “Nauvoo,” ete., which form what is called Gibberish, from the verb jabber. Stolkin is another such term which figures in this dogrec; (Note 37) which Mackey says, “it is impossible to trace to any Hebrew root” (or any other human language, he niight have added). Morris, too, says the word is not historical (Note 39.) And yet, amid these low tricks of imposture, quotations are made for the sublime portions of the Bible, used as funerals; thus literally “Stealing the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the deyll In.’ —Bbaksapeare.
This Fifth or Funeral Degree of the Scotch Rite, like -the Royal Arch and many others, has been added to and modified since it was brought over by the Jew, Moi-in, to South Carolina, and woven by Mitchell and Daleho into the web of the 330 Rite. Some eighty years ago, more or less, there was an obscure Vcrmont poet who published a little volume of poems which he styled “The Mill of the Muses.” The author’s Mill ground the English language badly for the moat part; but, as often happens to the unlearned gcnins, one of the poems had exquisite touches of natuee. Its first stanza ran thus: HailI Ta sighing auns of aorrow, viow with we the autumnal gloom. Learn from thence your fats to-morrow, Dead, perhaps. laid in the tomb.
This song, which became widely popular, sung in rural districts, at evening gatherings, and in booth,, at Militia Musters has been plagiarized to help out this Masonic funeral degree. When the lodge has marched to the Mausoleum they sing a song, opening with the first verse of that old Vermont poem, thus mangled:
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“wHAT A BANTER ON THE HUMAN RACE” SONG. Come, ye sighing sons ot sorrow. view with me your brother’s tomb. Learn from It your fate to-morrow; Death, perhaps, meg seal your doom.
Some other lines contain borrowings from the same poem, worse m~ngled, to meet the wants of the lodge. Then follows the ever recurring oath, promised and sworn, in presence of the “Grand Architect of the Universe,” “never to communicate the secrets of this degree ;“ with the singular addition: “I further promise to respect the dead, and to build in my body. a suitable monument to Truth and Jehovah ;“ which sacred name is bandied about from mouth to mouth as “the sacred word of the Perfect Master’s degree.” Then after the customary batch of senseless signs, which no man remembers, or could remember, who does not make Masonry his trade; the orator sums up by a silly, weak and shabby fiction bearing—That Solomon heard that Hiram’s b’~dy was found, gave orders for a funeral “of pomp &dd magnificence,” “ordered all the brcthren to built; the heart of Hiram preserved in an urn, placed on the top of an obelisk; and Solomon,” three days after visits the place, “makes the sign of Admiration, which is repeated by all the brethren.” By this degree the words of John Wesley are forcibly brought to mind: “What~a baii ter on the human race sa Freemasonry.” If the regalia and rites of the false religions of. the earth were not known to be gewgaws and humbuggery, aenaible men could hardly be persuaded that this funeral farce of the Fifth Degree could be literally enacted. The elements of its power over mind are: 1. It pleases Satan thus to degrade men made in the image of God, to avenge himself on the God he hates. 2. It degrades the Bible by fastening on it, in the minds of Masons, foolish falsehoods and fiction. 3. It profanes the nature of death and funerals, making men wonder likc heathen instead of worshipping like Christians.
CHAPTER VII 4
SIx’rH OR TNTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.
This grade is purely historical and is founded on an event which took place shortly after the completion of the Temple. It is not necessarily connected with either of the grades that precede it. The ceremony of introduction is lively and exciting. The lecture contains but little symbolic instruction; it is merely a recapitulation of the initiation, and a history of the events upon which the grade is founded, and together with the eleven grades which follow, it is associated with the twelve signs of the Zodiac:
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.—“lntlmate Secretary. (Secretaire latlme.)—The stub Gapes ta the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Its emblematic color Ia black. ibowed with tears; and Its collar and the lining of the apron are ret’— ~ehers Kaqolopeedia of rrsemaaeary, Jatiele Zatimate Ueeretsq.
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DECORATIQ~S :—The ~ [lodge] represents the audience chamber of King Solomon’s palace, and ib hung with black, strewed with tears, and is ‘illuminated by twenty-seven lights in three clusters of nine each, placed in the same manner as the three lights in a symbolic ~ [lodge:] East, West and South. TITLES :“—There are two presidents in this lodge, one represents Solomon, King of Israel, and the other Hiram, King of Tyre; there are two-other officers viz: A Captain of the Guards and a Lieutenant. In the initiation, the first two officers only are present, seated in the East; before them a triangular table, on it a scroll and two cross swords. The other brethren represent King Solomon’s guards, and remain in the first apartment. CLOTHING :—Solomon and Hiram are clothed in long blue robes with royal mantles of the same color, bordered with ermine, with crowns on their heads and acepters in their hands. The brethren wear black robes and caps, also a collar of fiery red, from which is suspended the jewel. JEWEL :—Which is a triple triangle with an eye, ear and mouth engraved thereon, viz: the eye on the top triangle, the ear on the left and thc mouth on the right triangle. Vote 41.—”Ite ofitoet’s aft only three: Solomon. Kin~ of Israel; flpam. King of Tyre; and a Captain of the Ouarda.’—Maokey 5 hoyelopalGia ii? leemaaonry, hillel. latimat. Secretary.
APRON: —White, lined and bordered with red, with a acroll and golden triangle painted on it, and the letters A.’. P.’. P.~. in the corners of the triangle. 0 LOVES —White, bordered with red. JJATTE1~Y :—Twenty-seven strokes, by three times nine; 00000000 0, three times. MORAL :“—Thtit we should be careful never to offend ii brother by prying into his secrets; and the criminality or eavca-dropping.” Vote 43.—”Tbe apron is whIte, lined and edged with redc upou it, a e’r,,ll cliii delt,; to the cortwr of the delta the letters A. P. P. The Jewel Ic ii chile with the asme initials. —Monte’s Masonto Diotlonary. Art. Intl.
mate Secretary. ~wote48.—~lts history records an instance of unlawful curiosity, the’ punishment of whkh ~c ca only uvertid hy the preYlous fidelity of the c,,y’,il’r. “—Maokay’s Encyolopasila of Fisemmeonry, Article Intimate Sec. retail. Wets 44.—””’he lesson. err. thet esYesdropping is unmasonic and thet ~oicclliattonr~ its anger.~ —Monies Masonic Dictionary, Article Intimate Secretary.
OPENING CEaEI(ONIE8.
OPENING CEREMONIES LrTIx~aTu Sucm~x’s” Duom. Solomo*—(Knocks 000000) Captain of the Guards, I am about to open a lodge or audience of Masters. Do your duty accordingly. Caf~zin of Guards—Brethren will assemble and form in the north. Captain of Uuarda—Puissant Sovereign, the sentinds await your orders. Solomon—Brother Hiram, what is the object of our assembly? Hiram—It is to instruct ourselves. Solomon—What motives have we for this? Hiram—The preparatiou of our souls for immortality and love of God and man. Solomon—How shall we instruct ourselves? Hiram—Through curio~ity” ~andthe exercise of the physical and mental powers. Solomo*—When do~ we this work? Hiram—From seven to twelve at eve. Solomo*—What is the hour? Hiram—Seven o’clock past meridian. Solomon-It being seven o’clock past meridian, in the 1.5. 4S.—”lntimtte Secretary. Eloeteb Vasuay.J—ihe third degree conferred in the Lodge of PerfectIon. Scotch Masonry, and the sixth use. the eata of that myatem; It is alto known as Matter by Curloelty.— Morris. Diotleasay. Artiste Z.tl..tt lewetasy. Nets N.—”The ceremony and legend are Intended to paeserve the 15. membmance of an Inatance of unlawful curteelty. the due munlabmeut of tbs offender being averted only in coutideratlon of hia previona MaRty. 1kg degree aim teaches that Matona abould cultivate the vlrtuee of 5Iie~g. Juatic., Humanity and Secrecy; and that In the ezecutis, of juetice tb ehould not be unmindful of mercy.”—Maoey’a ZaqelegaeiIa eaiflletiemeq .5lreemasenry, Article latbmate e.retasy.
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name of God, and under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Grand CouncilT of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of th~ thirty-third degree, in and for the Sovereign and Independent State ‘of New York, and of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere in the valley and by virtue of the authority on me conferred; I hereby declare this lodge of Intimale Secretary open for study. Together brethren. (All give the signs, and battery.) ~lomon—Now brothers, Sentinels assume your positions in the purlieus of the chamber of audience, take lodge, see that none approach without permission, and give warning of all strangers and visitors. Captain of Guards—Attention Sentinels, salute; right facc; forward march. (All retire to the anteroom.) Note 47.—”Scotcb Rite, more familiarly known as the Ancient and Ac. cepted Seottleb rite. The degreca of this rite are, for the meet part. elaborated from the cyatem Invented by Ramety, who claimed that ho found them In scotland. where they bad been planted by Koighta of the Temple and of Malta on their return from Palestine. It I. neediest to my that these pretensions have no foundation In truth. The Council. and Lodges of this rite are governed by Supreme Council. of Grand inepectore General, of which there are two in the United state., one at Charleston. S. C • end the other at Boston. Mass.‘—Maucym Enoyclopeedla and DieMemasy of rreemasonry, Article Scotch lit..
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CHAPTER VIII SIXTH OR INTIMATE SEORETABY’S
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The candidate must be in the ante-chamber dressed as a Perfect Master, and when the Sentinels retire from the lodge, the Captain of the Guards ord~s one of the brethren to divest him of said dress. In the interim Solomon and Hiram appear, to be conversing before the triangular table; the candidate is made to approach the door, to open it slyly and put himself in a listening attitude, ‘~ben the guards make a little noise at the door, which being heard by King Hiram he looks about an4 seeing a man listening, he lifts his hands to Heaven and cries in a rage: Hiram—Oh Heavei~s! a spy is at the door! Solomon—Impossible, the guards are at their post. Hiram.—( Without making any reply, runs to thg door, seizes the candidate and dIags him in) Here he is. Solomon-Alas lit is my friend Joabert:” What shall we do with him? Hiram—( Drawing his sword or dagger) His indiscre. tion forfeits his life. We must kill him. Solomon— (Runs to King Hiram and puts his hand on his sword.) Stop my brother! stay your anger! 1 know the man and his offense may not be so great as it at first appears. Allow me to question him in presence of all the brethren. Vote U.—”bcabert, The companion of Solemn., and Hiram. The name appears in several of the high degrees in connection with the above sea. tinned illustrIous Maaons.~ —Masoys Zneycicpaedia an4 Dictionary ef hue•asenzy~ Article Joabert.
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Hiram—Do so, and may he be found innooent and true. Solornon—(Six knocks; 000000.) The brethren are led into the D [lodge] by the Captain of the Guards and seated, after having saluted the king by drawing the right hand from the left sl~oulder to the right hip. Solomon—Joabert,” what induced you to listen at the inviolate door of this chamber of secret audience? Candidate—Seeing this person (pointing to Hiram) who is a stranger to me, and suspecting the vigilance of the guards, I feared for your life, and held myself in readiness to succor you. Solomon—Is it iiot mere idle curiosity’ which brought you here? Candidate—No. Solo.mo n—What do you think of curiosity? Candidate—(Answers as he thinks proper.) Solomon continues his questions, and when he is satisfied says: Note 0.—”cabert. This, according to the legends of the high dej~ses was the name of the chief favorite of Solomon, who incurred the diap as. are of Hiram of Tyrs on a certain occasion, hut was suhacquently par. dened. and, on account of the great attachment he bed shown to the person of bis master, was appointed the Secretary of Solomon and Hiram in their Ucut intimate retatlona. lie was afternards still furthor eromotril hm~ Soinmon. and appointed with Tile and Adoniram a Provost ani Judge. He distinguished himself in his successful efforts to bring certain traitors to condign punishment, and although hy his rashness be at first excited thr~ anger of the king, be was suhacquently forgiven. and eventually received the highest reward that Solomon could bestow hy helug made an Sled. Perfect and Sohilma Meson. The name is evidently not Hrhrcw, or must at least have under~ne much corruption, for in its present form it cannot he traced to n Hebrew root.’ —Machay’s Incytiopasgia of treemasonay,
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Vote 55.—~~Ouriosity. it is a very general opinion emeng Masons that a candidate should not be actuated by curiosity in seeking edmiasion into the Order. But. in fact, there is no regulation tier landmark on the sub. ~ . An idle curiosity is. it is true, 11,5 haracterlsiie of p weak mind. ut to he influenced by a laudable curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of an Institution venerable for Its antiquity und its universality is to be eon troilad by a motive which is net reprehensIble. Thare are. indeed, in legends of the high degrees some instances where curiosity is condemned: but the curiosity, in these instances. led to an intrusion into forbiddan places, and is very different from the curiosity or tiosire for knowledge which leads a profane to seek fairly and oponly an acquaintance with mysteries which be baa already lasroed to r.pect. —Mackeys lucycic. gaedia of Freemasonry. Article Curiosity.
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Solomon—Captain of the Guards, lead this person to the middle chamber and detain him until we have de.. termined upon his fate, and remember, let him come forth when wanted; you will be responsible for him. Captain of Guarde—Attention brethren! (aU rise an4 form in line when the candidate is placed in the center of line.) Captain of Guards—Salute! (all salute.) Captain of Guards—Right face, forward march; (all retire to the ante-room and remain for some time.) Solomort—( Six knocks; 000000.) The sentinels enter with candidate and form in line in the West, facing the East. Solomon—Joabert,” approach the East. My brother, the good motive of your curiosity has found favor with us; for such curiosity’ furnishes through the senses, the object of truth and matter of thought, hence instead of condemnation you merit a recompense. I had given the King of Tyre a province of my empire in compensation for the assistance he rendered me in erecting the teniple, but the people of that province were ignorant and poor, and when King Hiram discovered this he hastened to Jerusalem to reproach me, and he entered this sacred chamber in an angry mood. You observed this and watched us, Hiram seized you, I, Solomon questioned you, and your motives having been found good, we have determined to reward your zeal and Vote 51.—Joabert. racotob Mascezyl—Tha name of this person is in. troduced into the degrees of Intimate Secretary. Provost and Judge. and Grand meet Perfect and Sublime Masons in Scotch Masonry He was on. of Solomon’s favorite attendants. He was made Secretary of King Sob. mon and King Hiram. Thu tradition with which Joabert is connected b enrions and entertaininL~Tbe name la not hlatoricaL—KoariWs VasamJs Dictionary. Artiols Joe
Vote U.—”OuriOsit7. Freemasonry has in all ages excited the curiosi~
of mankind; and curiosity is one of the most prevailing passions in tba human breast. The mind of man is kept in a perpetual thirst sfter knowi. edge, nor can he hear to he ignorant of what he thinks others know.”— Kaoop’s Enayelopsedla and Dioticuiry of Freemasonry, Article Onrioi~
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gervice, and appoint you [ntimate Secretary to the articles of alliance between us. Do you think you can inviolably keep secret what we are going to communicate to you, and will you bind yourself by an inviolable obligation in the most solemn manner of your fidelity? Candidats—I can. SoZomon—Then I must receive your pledge and promise. You will now kneel at the altar, plaee both your hands upon the Bible, square and compass, and contract your obligation. OBLIGATION INTIMATE SECUTARY’S DEGREE.
I—do promise and swear in the presence of the Great Architect of the Universe and this respectable (lodge] that I do solemnly bind myself by this oath never to reveal to any person, directly or indirectly what is at present to be communicated to me, especially to brothers of lower degrees. That I will attend all the summonses of this (lodge] and confine myself to the laws and regulations of it. That [will seek to know the miseries and wrongs of the people and strive to find the remedy. That I will endeavor to disseminate education and form the triple alliance of thought, affection and sensation, for the good of myself and all men. And should I betray this duty, may my body be delivered unto anatomists for dissection and its remnants remain unburied. Amen. iSoZomow—My brother, having contracted yonr obliga-
tion, and as the sense of consciousness is the intimate secretary between reason and tjie affections, you are charged with ascertaining the wants of the people and with the execution of measures for their education, the establishment of industry in order that from poverty, ignorance and wrong they may obtain justice, science and wealth. Arise my brother, I receive you Intimate Secretary on
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condition that you will faithfully fulfill your duty, and be as much attached to this order as the person wse whom you have the honor to succeed in office. The color of this ribbon with which I now decorate you, must ever bring to your recollection the wounds which that great man r~ceived from the traitors who did so in-’ humanly massacre him, and likewise of his blood which he preferred spilling every drop of than to reveal the secrets I am going to give you. The jewel which is attached to the ribbon is a triple triangle. On it are engraved a listening ear, a watchful eye and a discreet tongue, which requires all masons throughout the world to recognize your title to this new dignity. We expect, my respectable brother, that your fidelity will be proof against all temptations and dangers, and that this sword with which I gird you will serve to protect you against any villain who would dare attempt to surprise you into a confession of our mysteries. I will now invest you with the signs, grips and words 2f this degree:
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Join right hands, the firsi one turns the other’s hand and says, BeritW’ the other reversing the hand again says, Neder, then the first one resuming the first position, says, Shelemoth. These three words might be interpreted: Promise of a iY.mplete alliance. as’
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(the name of the candidate.) (the name of the Captain of the
flATTERY :—Tweiit=-seven strokes, by three timed nine,
00000000 0; three times. Brethren, resume your seats and listen .ittentively to the discourse of our Master of Eloquence upon the necessity of the pursuits of knowledge and the alliance of the soul, the affections and the senses to create the masonic virtue of curiosity.
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Raise the right hand, then draw it from the left shoulder to the right hip, thus indicating the fall of a scarf. Cross the arms horizontally, raise them to the height of the breast and then let them fall towards the hilt of the sword while raising the eyes to
DISCOURSE BY MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.
My brother, newly initiated: The degree of Intimate Secretary into which you hove just been received is purely historical, and is founded
heaven.
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Vote K.—”Zarhal. The name of King Solomona Captain of the Quarde in the degree of intimate Secretary. No such person la mentioned in Scripture, nod it is therefore an inyention of the ritualist who faheleated the degree.’—Maokay~a Rncyslopaedta of lreeznasonry, Aztiele lerhal.
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which took place shortly after the completion of the Temple. This degree, my brother, is not necessarily connected with either of those that precede or follow it. It appears from what we can glean from Masotiic tradition, th~t, previous to the commencement of the Temple, Hiram, King of Tyre, by a treaty made with Solomon, King of Israel, had agreed to furnish for the construction of the Temple, hewn timber, framed and drawn from the forests of Lebanon by Hiram’s people; also hewn stones squared and numbered in the quarries of Tyre, ready made and fitted for immediate use; he also furnished him with a large number of his (iiblim, stone cutters and sculptors, and of his setters, layers and builders; also with a large number bf cedar and fir trees to be used in the construction of God’s holy temple at Jerusalem. For and in consideration of which, Solomon agreed to give him 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 of pure oil, year by year; and also barley, wine and honey, and upon the completion of the temple 30 citiesTM in the land of Galilee; and there was peace between Solomon King of Israel, and Hiram King of. Tyre. A year elapsed befbre the provisions of this treaty were complied with on the part of Solomon; and when Kiram King of Tyre went to visit his newly acquired territory, he found the lands poor and the people rude and of bad morals, and that the keeping of it would be attended with more expense than profit. He therefore went in person to Solomon to complain of the deceit; when he arrived at Jerusalem he made his entry through the guards and went hastily to the apartment of King
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acter the latter was so displeased that he called them the land ot CehaL” —Vs.*e~s Zfe~elopaedIa of lasemaamry, Aztiole Intimate Isinetery.
105 Solomon, who happened to be alone bemoaning the loss of Hiram Abiff. Hiram King of Tyre, walked in so hastily, and seemingly in so passionate a manner as to give umbrage to, and rouse the zeal of, one of Solomon’s favorites called Joabert, whom you this evening have had the honor~ to represent. Joabert being struck with the notion that he came with some evil design against his sovereign, was prompted to follow the King of Tyre, and go to the door and listen. After the King of Tyre had entered the apartment of Solomon, and had conversed with him a short time as regards their treaty, deeming themselves secure from all eaves droppers, upon looking around Hiram per. ceived a person at the door listening to their conversation and exclaimed, “Oh heavens, we are overheard,” and running to the doo~r seized Joabert by the hand and dragged him into the presence of Solomon, saying: “Rere he is.” Solomon, who could not doubt of his favorite’s trespass, asked him, “What shall we do with him ?“ Hiram immediately replied, “We must kill him,~’ and drew his sword for that purpose, on which Solomon coming down from the throne, said, “Stop, my brother, stay your anger, I know the man, and his offense may not be so great as it at first appears; allow me to question him.” Which was immediately assented to by Hiram King of Tyre. After King Solomon, in the presence of Hiram, had questioned Joabert as regards his peeping in at the door, he ordert~d his guards to seize him and conduct him from the apartment and to be answerable for him when required. After the two kings were left alone, Solomon thus addressed King Hiram: Sire, this is the only person among my favorites INITIATION.
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and lords of my .court who has a real and affectionate attachment for my person. I know him sufficiently well to be convinced that the indiscretion he has been guilty of, is less to be attributed to an imperative curiosity than to his apprehension of any dangerous accident befalling me; your~ looks, your change of countenance and hasty manner in passing through the room were what excited his curiosity and alarm for my safety. I therefore entreat you to recall the sentence of death which you have pronounced against him and I will be answerable for his “zeal and discretion.” The King of Tyre knowing how agreeable it would be to Solomon that his favorite Joabert should be pardoned, readily consented, and the two kings renewed their treaty, which was to be perpetual with different clauses and prQwises on both sides of eternal fidelity. To which treaty Joaj~rt was Intimate Secretary. Thus my brother, you see what was represented in your reception of Past Master by Curiosity, Intimate Secretary or English Master.
Hiram—I was then ignorant of it, but have since found that my resolution, perseverance and firmness has procured me the favor of being the first initiated into this degree. Solomc~n-What are the pass-words? Hiram—Joabert and Zerbal. Solomon-What do ~thesenames signify? Iliram—Joabert is the name of Solomon’s favorite wIlo listened at the door, and the other, Captain of the Guards, and each a commander of the twelve tribes. Solomon—What is the great word? Iliram—J. ~.E.~.H..() V. ~.A.~ men~tioned hi letters. Soloawn—What were you before you were Intimai Secretary? Hsra rn—A favorite of Solomon. Solomon—From what country did you come? Ilira rn—From Capule. Solomon—Your surname? Hira rn—A Capuliste. Solomon—I-low many governments did Solomon give to King Hiram in return for the work done by his peoplc for the temple? Hiram—Thirty. Solomon—Where were you received? JIiram~—In Solomon’s hall of audience; hung with liluck, and illuminated with twenty-seven lights. Solomofl—Wllat signifies the J.x which you see in tim window?
LECTURE INTIMATE 5EORETARY’S DEGREE.
Solomon.—Illustrious President, are you an Intimate Secretary? Hiram~—(Lifting his eyes) I am. Solomon—How have you been received? Hiram—By my curiosity. Solomon—Did you run any risk by it? Hiram—Yea; that of losing my life. Solomon—What was done after you were detected? Hiram—I was committed to the care of the guards and expected to have sentence of death pronounced against me. Solomon—Were they Intimate Secretaries or Pexfect Masters?
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degree signifies: “Let us return thanks to God; the work is complete.” Solomon-What signify the A.~. and the two- P’s in the triangle? Hiram—The A means alliance, the bat P, promisq, and the second, perfection. Solomon—Why is the ~ [lodge] lighted by twentyseven lights? Hiram—To represent the 2,700 candlesticks which Solomon orderea to be made for the illumination of God’s temple. Solomon-(Pointing to a screen or painting of un elaborate door standing or hung in the north.) What does the door in the draft represent? Hiram—The door of Solomon’s palace. Solomon—What means the triangle that hangs to your ribbon?
Hiram—The three theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. You may give it another explanation: say, Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff.
CLOSING CEREMONIES INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.
Solomon—Brother Hiram, what’s Hiram—Twelve, past meridian.
the hour?
SoZo*wn-It is therefore time for rest, in order that the body may recruit its strength to resume its service of the soul: Hence I proclaim this college of Intimate Secretaries closed. Solomon—(Nine knocks, 00000000 0.) Hiram—(Nine knocks, 00000000 0; and the ~ [lodge] is closed.)
A IORTUNR flOM SELLING MASONIC DEG~ERU.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS SIXTH OR INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE. Notbini bu* Fnl.ehood—A Fortune from Selling Memonic Degrcea—~~MoIe a Meant than Meets the Ey~~—E~ibUg Protebatona to Astronemha Teacblnl—A Government of wolvt.a Over Sheep.
The name (Joabert) of the hero of this degree is gibberish, derived from no language living or aead,( Seo Note 49;) and everything concerning the degree is falsehood. It is not a “legend,” for a legend is an old story handed down to be read; but this was made up by Ram.ai, (see Note 47) to humbug and inveigle English Masons into recalling the Stuarts; to destro~v Protestism and popular government. Its scene is laid in Palistine to give color of truth to the falsehood that it came to Scotland from thc Crusades. This is not a harmless fiction but a falsehood invented for gain, as ~vine,manufactured in a groggery, is labeled “Madeira’ to sell. The soil of France was owned, with meagre exceptions, by priests and nobleg. The latter despised a Masonry made by London mechanics. So this and the other French degrees were made to sell to these nobles. I-[ence Ramsai~ “claimed that lie found them in Scotland where they had been plnnted by lcnights, princes and nobles, returned from Palestine.” “It is neQtlleQs to say,” says Macoy. “thnt these pretensions have no foun~iation in truth.” (See Note 47.) This cool statement by one of the first Masonic nuthorities, and Mccoy is such, would be fatal to- any swindling but a false religion, which hoodwinks its candidates whilp the devil “blind* their ,tzinda.” But fraud anA
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falsehood do not tarnish Masonic morality and truth. Ra.m.ay’s degrees sold. He amassed a fortune which enabled him to offer wealth to his Scotch relatives. And Mackey, who out-ranks all other Masonic writers, says of him: “All writers concur in giving the most favorable opinions of Ramsay’s character.”. Mid Chambers (quoted by Mackey) asserts that “he was generous and kind to his relatives,” though “on his temporary return to Great Britain he did not visit them in. Scotland, though he sent them liberal offers ~f money, which, however, they refused.” (See the whole article. Rarnsay, in Maoke!)’e Enc7Jclopedia~) But this degree was invented not only for young French Nobles, but for English Masons, who, with their predecessors, had sung ale-house ditties in honor of Solomon for seven hundred years. It must therefore keep in line with the York Rite, or it would not be “Mason?!) divine.” Ramsay, therefore, wrote this SAomonic fiction, which he had a right to do, but not to falsify its origin to make money, nor to pass it for truth, with the aid of Jesuits, and the multitude of priests who could scarcely read their breviaries, to swindle the ignorant masses in France, at that time, “almost totally uneducated.” The Lodge room in this degree represents Solomon’s audience-room. The man with the gibberiph name, Jeabert, sees King Hiram going to Solomon with anger In his countenance, being dissatisfied with certain lands given him in pay for his help in building the temple. Joabert, a warm personal friend of Solomon’s, crept after Hiram to hear what passed, fearing Solomon’s assassination. He is discovered, seized by Hiram and abqut to be slain as an eavesdrQpper; Solomon interJames, saves his friend, being satisfied that he is no spy,
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and Joabert becomes “Intimate Secretary” to Kingu Solomon and Hiram. This frivolous fiction is all that this degree adds t French Masonry. So weak and worthless is it that it would long since have passed to the tomb of forgotten trifles, in spite of ~itsnightly pomps, gorgeous drapery and mock-solemn oaths, uniess, from its birth, while professing abstinence from politics and religion, it had constantly ,intermeddled with both. While the stupid Masonic masses and a few enthusiasts, who have received the mark of the Image of the Beast in their forehead, have really believed it; the cunning leaders evermore have had practical objects in view. So that it has alwa~rs been true of it that “More is meant than meets the eye.” When royalist lodges in England were plotting to restore an exiled pretender to the throne, in their refreshinents, they would hold their glasses over a tub or vase and “drink to him over the water.” And in France when this degree was in the Rite of twenty-five degrees, then prevailing there, Mitchell, in his large volumes (Vol. I, p. 304), says: “Freemasonry not only became a part and parcel of the levelling schemes of The Illuminati, but gradually crept into the Jacobin clubs, and thus wielded an influence in bringi~ig about the great Revolution.” True, Mackey says, (Art. Jacobins), while “Abbe Barnel and Prof. Robison endeavor to prove that there was a coalition of the revolutionary conspirators with the Freemasons who formed the Jacobin Clubs.” • • “it is evident that the Freemasons held themselves aloof from the political contests of that period.” But the weight of authorities, as well as reason and common sense are against him. Lamartine, in his history of the Girondista, attributes the moat revolting crimes and
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criuelties to the secret lodges of Paris; which he compares to knots of poisonous reptiles hid under the green slime of stagnant pools, seen only when their slimy covering is blown off by the breezes of popular commotions.” But, in itself and its professed oljects, the mindless frivolity of this and other like degreeat, is only excelled by their quack pretensions to morality and science. What is there in this tissue of pompous emptiness to warrant Solomon’s dialogue with Hiram in the opening exercises. Thus: Solomon—Brother Hiram, what is the object of our ~&ssembly? Hiram—It is to instruct ourselves. Solomon—What motives have we for this? Hiram—The preparation of our souls for immortality and the love of God and man. And then we are told (see the Ritual) that “this, with the eleven degrees following,” “are associated with the twelve signs of the Zodiac ;“ a picture of which is given to save the degree from utter contempt, by this quack pretension to astronomic science. “A~ciated with the Zodiac I” And how? The Zodiac is a belt of constellations through which the sun travels in its journey through the year. And these groups of stars have received the fanciful names of animals, of which not one observer of the heavens in a million ever sees or thinks he sees an image or likeness of. And in his zeal and desire to make a perfect Rite, and monopolize its profit, some quack pretender to science, when France was crawling with newly invented degrees, strung together a Rite of twelve degrees, and, from the almanac, printed a sign of the Zodiac upon each to make a perfect circle, and so tax and govern the
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rest. But why should this Sixth degree be marked with the sign of the Vtr~qin instead of Aries, the Ram? And the next following with that of Libra, or the balanee. instead of Taurus, the Bull? We know no reason and none is given to the initiate. Doubtless there ia none but the whim of the inventor, whose sole object is imposture and cheat. “Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way; and all the people shail say, Am.en.”—Deut. ~27,18. Thirty years after the invention of this degree in the Jesuit College Rite of Perfection, Thos. Jefferson was our minister to France (1784). These Bites had then overrun France, and Jefferson said: “A government of priests and nobles for a people, is like a government of wolves over sheep.” The meanness of the thief who misdirects and leads a blind man out of his road into the woods to filch money from his pockets, is a poor crime beside that of the impostor who misdirects wanderers into eternity who have lost their road. And such were the manufacturers of ~this degree. Such, too, are The manufacturers of all false religions. They cause their fellow travelers to “wander out of the way of understanding and renjain in the congregation of the dead.” The only mitigation which can be plead for such false teachers, is, that they come to believe their own teachings. But that no more excuses them than suicide juslifies murder.
CHAPTER IX SEVENTH DEGREE OR PROVOST AND JUDGE.”
This grade was originally instituted by King Solo. mon to aid in preserving peace and order” axrong the workmen engaged in the erection of the temple, it bt’ing the especial duty of a Provost and Judge to settle difficulties and disputes that might arise among the workmen. LINRA OR DALANCE.
:“—The ~ (lodge) of Provost and• Judge must be hung with red and illuminated by five great lights; one in each corner and one in the centre. The Master is in the East, under a blue canopy, surrounded by gold stars; and is styled Thrice Illustrious; DECORATIONS
Note N.—”Proyoet and Judge. tScotoh Masonryl—The fOuWth degree conferred in the Lodge of Perfection. Scotch Muanory, and tbe seventh upon the catalogue of that agate,. There isa master, styled Thrice IllustrIous Who represents Tito. Princ, of tbe ijarodim, tbe First Grand warden anti Inspector ~f the 800 Architects, and a chief Inspector. representing Adonirem. “—Morris’s Maaonio ma~Icmq, Lotiole Provost and Judge. Not. 57.—”Proycet and Judge. The seventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite. Tbd legend of this degree is founded upon tbe princ.iplee of Impartiality and Justice. After the death of the Grand Master work. man of the temple. King Solomon. fot the purpose of strengthening his means of preserving order among the vast number of craftsmen engaged in the construction of the temple, appointed seven Provost, and Judges, in order that all complaints amnn~ the workmen might be heard, disputee set. tied and justice odminiatered.’ —Maceye Eneyelopaedis and Dictionary ci 1seemaaear~. hUcle Provost and Judge. Note 58.—lbs degree was instituted hy Solomon. to sushi. him to pie. serve order among the workmen. The hangings are red. The number of lights is five. The apron is white, lined with red, and furnished with a socket; below the pocket, the cross keys. The Jewel is a gold key. The lesson is Justice to all men. Age 4z16. Hours of work. break of day eight, two and seven.“—Needs’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Provost anA Judge
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he represents Tito Zadoc, Prince of the Harodim, the eldest of the Perfect Masters and Intimate Se~cretaries, first Grand Warden and Inspector of the 300 Architects, whose office was to draw plans for the workmen of the temple.
There are two wardens, who represent Adoniram and Abda,’ his father. They are seated in the West and
OPENING CEREMONIES
styled Illustrious Brothers; the rest of the brethren are
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placed to the right and left, except the introducing brother, who sits behind the wardens in the West. 5—AIl the brethren in black robes and CLOTHIKG : caps, apron is white, trimmed with white, with a pocket in the centre, with a red and white rosette below the pocket; on the flap a key painted or embroidered in gold. The pocket is intended to keep the keys of the chest containing the plans. Collar red, from which is suspended the Jewel of the grade, a gold key. BATTERY:— Five strokes by four and one (0000 0.) SYMBOLIC AGE :—Four times sixteen. MORAL OF THE GRADE :—That we should render justice to all men. HOURS OF WORK :—Eight~ two and seven o’clock. Note U.—”Ahda. A word used in some of the high degrees. He was the father of Adoniram. (See I Kings Iv, S.) Lenniug is wrong in eny~ng that he is represented by one of the officers to the degree of Master in
Israel. He has confounded Abda with his son.”—Mac&ey’e Encyclopasil. ci lresmasoary, Artlele AMa.
Note U.—”The spsrtmest represents the middle chamher of King Sob.
mon’s Temple; the hangings are red, with a aky-hine canopy in th’b East. The room is lighted with five lights, one in each corner, and one In thg midilie. Tho presiding officer is atyted venerahle Chief Provost add Judge. The siron is white, edged with red; In the middle ii a pocket with a red and ~hlte rosette. On the dsp is painted. or embroidered in gold, a key. The sash Is crimson, worn from right to left; from it hangs the jewel, which is a key of goid.”—Macoy’a heyslepeedla and Dietimay 51 Uses’ maseazy, Article Provost and Juige.
Tito—(Strikes five; 0000 0.) Brother Wardens, are we duly guarded?
Wardens—Thrice Illustrious, we are; and can begin work. Tito—Where is your master placed? Wardens—Everywhere. Tito—Why so? Wardens—Because God is omniprese’it, and his justice is universal. Tito—What is the hour? Wardens—Dawn of day, mid-day, eve and night. Tito—(Knocks 0000 0.) Wardens—(Knock 0000 0; all rise.) .Tito—This college of Provost and Judge is open; (all give the sign and battery rknocksl after which all are seated.) Note 61,—”Provost and Judge. (?revot et Jugs,) The seventh degre. Of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bits. The history of the degree relates that it was founded hy Solomon, King of Israel, for the purpose of strengthening his means of Preserving cider among the vast nuinher of eraStamen eugaged ~n the ,‘onatruction of the Temple. ‘i’ito, Prince Hare. dim, Adoniram and Abda, his father, were first created Provosts and Judges, who were afterwards directed by Solomon to initIate his tavcdte and Intimate secretary, Joahert, and to give hIm the keys of all the beNd. log. In the old rituals the Mastar of a Lodge of Provosts and Judges represents lito, Prince Harodim, the first Grand warden and Inspeeter of the three hundred archltects,”—.Maehsy’s heyclepasila at la’ssmaamsr. haM. de lrevest and Juigs.
INITIATION.
CHAPTER X SBvxi~TH DEGlIEE OR PROVOST A~I) JUDGE. INITIATIOS.
Tito—Brother Master of Cerenlonies, 3011 will now retire and prepare the candidate jol’ initiation. PEEPAEAT1O~ Ok’ CAXDIDATE.
Master of Ceremonies retires after saluting, and pro~ares the candidate as an Intimate Secretary, and nocks four and one Adontram—Thrice Illustrious, our tribunal is di.. turbed. Ttto—It may be a call for justice; brothei’ Adonirain, you will send our brother Expert to ~L’C ivito knocks as a Provost and Judge. Adonirem—Brother Expert, you will sce who knocks as a Provost and Judge. Expert—(Goes tq~ the door, knocks four cud one, opens the door and says:) Who knocks a.~ ii 1’rovost and Judge? Master of Ceremonies—One who has duli’ fulfilled his duty as Intimate Secretary, and is now worthy of tile office of Provost and Judge. Rxpert—(Shutting the door,) Brothcr Ad~iirain, it is one who has duly fulfilled his duty as Intimate Secretary and is now worthy of the office of Pro~’ost and Judge. Adontram—Thrice Illustrious, it is one who has duly performed his duty ai Intimate Secretary, and is now worthy of the office of Provost and Judge.
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Tile—Brother Adoniram, has he been well examined as regards his qualifications and been found worthy? Adoniram—Brother Expert, has he been well examined as regards his~ qualifications and been found worthy? Expert—Brother Master of Ceremonies, has he been well examined as regards his qualifications and been found worthy? Master of Ceremontes—He has, Brother Expert. Expert—Thrice Illustrious, he has. Tito—Then let him be admitted. Expert.— (Opening the door) Brother Master of Ceremonies, let him be admitted. Master of Ceremonies then leads him into the [lodge] and places him between the wardens and altar. Tito—Brother Master of Ceremonies, whom do you conduct? Master of Ceremonies—One who has duly fulfilled
his duty as Intimate Secretary, and is worthy of the office of Provost and Judge: His name is Joabert, Tito—Brother Master of Ceremonies, is he well versed in the signs, tokens and words of the previous work, and is he well qualified to receive this? Master of Ceremonies—He is, Thrice fllustrious. Tue—Let him give proof of his knowledge. Master of Ceremonies cause~ the candidate to rehearse the signs, tokens and words of the previous degrees. Tile—Brother Intimate Secretary Joabert, I am well pleased with the proofs of study and art you have exhibited, and will now proceed to ascertain if you are a fit person to be a Provost and Judge among your fellows and over your brethren. Brother Joabert, what is justice? (Candidate answers as he thinks proper,) Tile—My brother, we define Justice thus “Justice
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is the equation of right and duty, between man and man, or between the individual and society.” What is equation? What are rights? What are duties? What is law? These are questions upon which you should reflect, to ascertain wherein right and duty may be absolute and relative, and wherein law may be natural or conventional. Brother Joabert, a most important question tiow arises: We have a very clear idea of justice. We may know what it is, we may show its origin and necessity; but tell me how is justice to be attained, realized, dispenaed and established? How are we to ascertain that which would be justice between man and man, or between society and one of its mcmbers, in case of contestation? (Candidate answers as he thinks proper.) Tito—Brother Master of Cermonies, teach brother Joabert to travel. Master of Ceremonies then conducts the candidate seven times round the ~ [lodge.] On the first round he gives the Thrice Illustrious the sign, token and word of an Entered Apprentice; on the second, the sign, token and ~vordof a Fellow Craft, and so on until the seventh round, after which I~e stops in front of the altar facing the East. Tito—(To candidate.) My brother, it gives me infinite satisfaction to have this opportunily of rewarding your zeal for masonry, and your attachment for the master of masters and this I do by appointing you Provost and Judge over all the workmen of this ~ [lodge,1 for as we are fully convinced of your discretion, we do not hesitate to confide in you, and to communicate our most important secrets to you, which will encourage you to do your duty in this degTee as you have done in Ihe preceding ones which you had the honor of being admitted into. Brother Joabert, by accepting the degree
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of Provost and Judge you pledge yourself to do inipartizi juBtice to eyery man. To aid you in performing it the Expert will entrust you with a golden key. It opens the tomb’ which symbolizes t~e sanctuary of truth, the sanctuary of conscience, where the heart of Hiram Abiff has been deposited: it opens all the buildings and gives you access everywhere. But brother Joabert, before we present you with this key, or before we entrust you with the means •f doing jwtice, we demand of you the solemn pledge of every Provost and Judge; are you willing to bind yourself am we hare done? Candidate—I am. Tito—(Five knocks; 00000; all rise.) Brethren bear ye witness to the obligation thia Intimate Secretary is about to aasume, with his hand upon the balance. OBLIGATION PflOVOST AND JUDGE.
I , do solemnly promise in presence of this assembly, and of my own conscience, that I will keep the secrets of Provost and Judge; and that I will truly, justly and impartially dispense justice to my brcthren and to all the world, according to rule and the best of my abilities; and lastly bind myself under the penalties of all my former obligations, to pay a just and due obedieni,e to the regulations and orders of the council of Princes of Jerusalem; so may God keep me in truth, equity, and justice: Amen. Tito—Brother Expert, you will now give brother Joebert the key and conduct him to the monument. Expert then conducts him to the monument, kz,~eIs and says: Expert—CM. Tito—Ky (Elpert then risen.)
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Ezpe4—MY brother, these two words, Civi and Ky, are our pass words, the one means ask or knock and it will be opened the other means arise or seek and it will be found. The lesson taught is simply this: that justice is only possible through truth; to be just we must know the truth. We should therefore learn to handk the key of truth, and by investigation obtain evidence. Tito—Brother Expert, you will now conduct our newly made brother to thc east. (1)oes so.) Tito—Brother Joabert. I now greet you with the grip and sign of a Provost and Judge.
ANSWER.
Place the first finger of the right hand. on the top of the nose, and the thumb of the same under the chin, forming a square.
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fingers of the Lack the two right little hands with the forefinger, one of the other,
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and give seven light blows with Ihe thumb of the right hand on the palm of the same. SIGN.
Place the two first fingers of the right hand on t~ie nose. U
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PASS WORD ;—TITo,~ Civi, SACRED WORD :—Jachinai,~
Ky. which is the plural of the
word Jachin. GRAND WORDS :—Izrack-Jah, Jehovah, Hiram, Stol— kin, Geometra8s~ and Architect. Note 68.—Tito. A signifioniit word in the high degree.. The Scottleb Il~te rituaRa give the nnn~e of T~to. Pr~nee Harodim, to him who they say warn the firM who wa~ appohited by Soi~mon a Proicat and Judge. Tbi. zion appears to be aRt.gethi’r inytb~c’aI, the word is not found in the ~eebrew Rangijage. uor baa any menning been given to it. He Is represented a. baiilng been at favorite of tbe King ot israel. Be Is said to bave presided OV’F the Lodge of Intendants of tbe Building, and to have becii one of the twelve illugtrious knights who were net over tbe twelie ifibee. that of N.ipbtnll b4~Ing pla~’ed iiader Ida care. The whole ot this legejid ii. of course. I’onneeted wilh the symboi~e slgnifl’fttion of tboae degrc~s. ‘—Mackey’s Enc7ciopaedi& of Ereema.onry. hrtiol~ Zito. Note 68.—”A 08111c ‘orrnption of Shekinab, to be fonnd only in the French Cw.her. of tbe high degreea. —Mackey’s Enc~c1opa.d1a of Pro.. masonry, Article Jaohinai. Note 64.—”Geometry. Iii the mocl~•rn r~tuaIa geometry ii said to be iho buala on which the 8uper~trueture of Masonry is erected; and in the0ld Constitutions ot the Mediaeval Freewaaona of England the moat pi’omt I3M~t pRace of all the sciences is given to geometry, which Is made S~D0D7~ luous wltb Masonry. Thus. In the Halliwell MS.. wblch date, not later rbai, the latter part of the fourteenth century. the Constitutiona of’ !dasoiiry are called ‘tbe Oonatitritlou of the art of geometry according te EucIid. the words gEometry and Masonry being us9d Indifferently throagb~ q,ijI the doeamehi; and In the flarleian MS. It Is said. ‘ihum the craft (1eorn~try wis governed tbe,e, and that worthy MaatP? (Huelid) gale it the I*Ime ~f Geometry, and It Is calied Mav.onrie In tbls land long atter.’ In suothet part of the same Ms. ft is tbus defined. ‘The fltth acience iS aglied Geometry, and it teaches a man to mete and mesaI2re ot the earth and other thingR. which sciencE’ i~ Maaonric. “—Mackeys EmQalopmedi. d r.emai@n~, £rtiolo Gsorntz~.
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Tito——I also invest you with’ your apron, as an emblem of the ardor and zeal of the Masters. The pocket in the apron is intended to keep the keys of the chest -containing the plans. Tito—Brother ~E~pert,conduct our newly elected brother to the altar and proclaim him duly installed a Provost and Judge. Expert—(Conducts him to the altar.) To the glory of the Grand Architect of the universe, under the auspices of the Supreme Council of the 33d degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite,” in and for the Sovereign and Independent State of New York, I do hereby proclaim Brother as a Provost and Judge, .and an active member of our tribunal throughout tIle world. T’to—Together, brethren. (All give the battcry by clapping hands, four and one.) Tito—Brother Expert, lead our associate to his seat among us, to listen to our lecture. LECTURE PROVOST AND JUDGE.
Tito—Brothcr Adoniram, are you a Provost and Judge? Adonirarn—Thrice Illustrious, I distributed justice impartially to all the workmen. Tito—.How did you get admittancc into the ~ [lodge] of Provost and Judge? Adoniram—By striking four strokes and a fifth one after a little pause. Tito—What do these four knocks and fifth separate signify? Nets 65.—”Anoisnt and Aecepted sit., or Ineffable degrees; first kneWU In France, in 1755. as the Emperors of the East and West. with twenty. five degrees. suheequently these degrees were Inersased to thirty-three. under the title ot Ancient and Accepted Bcottlah Rite, at the city of Charleston. where. in the year 1801. a supreme Council for the southern portion of the United 5tates was organised. 1. 180? another Supreme Cooncil was established In New Toek for the northern nortioiz of ft I United 5tstea. “—Kacoy’s EnayelepsadlA sad Dfetteaaiy o(tesmaaesq’, Art. Rite.
125 Adoniram—The four are emblems of the four fronts of the temple, and the fifth the unity 3f God, whose temple it is, and to whom is due every homage from us. Tito—What did you meet with at your entrance? Adoniram—With a brother who conducted me to the altar. Tito—What became of you then? Adonsram—After giving proofs of my skili to the Thrice Illustrious, and taking upon myself the solemn obligation, I was conducted to the tomb, caused to kneel and pronounce the word Cit’f, which signifies kneel. Tsto—What answer did the Thrice Illustrious make you? Adoniram—He pronounced the word Ky, which sigLECTURN.
nifies to rise.
Ttto—What did the Thrice Illustrious do next? Adotziram—He constituted me Provost and Judge, depending on the good account he had of my zeal for the craft. Tito—What did he give you? Adoniram—A golden key to distinguish the degree I had received, and with this a sign, token, and word, by which I may be known as a Provost and Judge. Tito—.-What is the use of that key? Adoniram—To open a small ebony box where all the plans required for the construction of the temple are kept. Tito—What do you mean by this ?“ Adoniram—I niean that we are only entrusted with the word and secret to know where the heart of our Master Hiram AblE is deposited. TUo—What is your word? Adoniram—Tito.
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Tito—What does that signify? Admiram—It is the name of the firsi grind warden. He was Prince Harodim” the eldest of the Provost and Judges, and inspector over 300 architects of the temple. Tito—What was Solomon’s intention in creating this degree? Adoniram—As it was necessary to establish order and regularity among such a number of workmen, Solomon created Tito Prince Harodiin,’ as ~vaaalso Adoniram, who w~s created Chief of the Provost and Judges, and also the King’s great confidant and favorite, Joabert, who was initiated into the mysteries of this degree, and to him was given the key to open the ebony box that contained all the plans of the building; which box you have seen in the degree of Secret Master. This box was hung under a rich canopy in the Sanctum Sanctorum: Joabert was so struck with admiration at beholding these things that he fell on his knees pronouncing the word Civi. Solomon seeing him in this attitude, pronounced the word Ky, and then put the scales in his hands, by which his knowledge duly increased. Tito—’.That did you perceive in the ~ [lodge?] A doniram—A figured curtain with a canopy, under which was suspended the ebony box containing the plans. Note 6&—”Naz’odlm, PrInce of. In the old icetores of the Ineffahie do. grees it Is said that Tito. the oldest of the Proroata and Judges, was the Prince of Harodim; that ii. chief of the three hundred architects who vs. the Harodim. or additional three hundred added to the thirty-three hundred Menatachifli mentioned in Chronicle~, and Who thus make u 1~ the on.her of three thousand iii hundred recofded in the first Bonk of ings. and who in the old l9ctnre of the degree of Provost and Jndge are auppesad to have heen the Rarodim or Rulers in masonry. The statement is a myth; hut it thus attempts to explain the discrepancy alluded to in the ~article Ka.rcdlm.”-NaehOY’a EncyclopaedIA Of PrOsElaSesey, Aticls Nor. cairn. PrincO of. Note 67.—”A society termed the Grand Chapter of ilarodim was fornud at London in 1787 under the auspices of william Preston. which has served as the model of our Schools or Lodges of InstructIon. A foil Secount of it Is given in Preston’s Dluatrntiens. The term Rerodim signIfies prInces sad rulers. A side degree of ronsidershid! ropete in this enuntry Is lIkewise termed Rarodim. ‘—Nonha’s MasonIc Die*ienaqd A’tieLe Naredim.
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Tito—have ~ou seen nothing else? ~ Adoniram—I saw a triangle in the ~ [lodge] on which were these two letters GA, thus entangled. Tito—What do they signify? Adoniram—That God himself was the Gjeat Architect of the temple, and had inspired David and Solomon with the plan of it. Tigo—What else have you seen in the ~ [lodge]? Adoniram—A pair of scales which are the emblem of rectitude, with which we should always execute the duties of this degree, as we are appointed judges to decide all disputes that may occur. Tito—Where is the body of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff deposited? Adoniram—TJ nder the footstbol of the throne in the cllapter room, which is separated from the temple, to which you go by an arch-way on the north side of the temple. Tito—Where is the heart interred? A doniram—In a golden urnswhich is shut up in the obelisk. Tito—What mean the letters “X’, and “J” which appear on the north side of your draft? Adonirf.syn—Xinxe” and Jachinaj:—The 1~rst signi. fies the seat of the soul, and the second is the sacred word. Tigo—Wliere were you placed? Adordram—In the middle chamber. Ttto—Have you done any remarkable work since you became Provost and Judge? lots 58.—’‘lIAza. A signideant word in the high degrees. Delanony tJuiisur. p. 49) gIves it as Zlnohen. and says that it has teen translated as ‘the seat of ihe soul.’ But in either form it has evidently undergone mwh rorruptinn as to he no longer comprehensible. “—Kaoke7’a Encyclopaodia of Fisemasomy, Artiala KIngs.
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Ado,tiram—I have ornamented tllc tomb of our dear Master Hiram Abiff. Tile—What did the Thrice Illustrious ornament you
with, upon being received Provost and Judge? Adonirami—W~th a white apron lincd with red, with white and red roscs and a pocket in the apron. Tile—What is the intention of the pockct? Adoniram—The cldest Provost and Judge makes use of it, to put the plans in, which he communicatcs to the Masters who draw them out on their trestleboard. Tilo—What do the white and red roses mean? Adonira.m—The red’ is an emblem of the blood that was spilled by our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and the white signifies the candor and fidelity of the Masters. Tile—How old are you? A doniram—Four times sixteen.
Tile—What o’clock is it? Adoniram—Break of day, eight, two and seven o’clock.
so? A doniram—Beeause a Perfect Mt.ster, Provost and Tile—Why
Judge should be everywh,~re and at all hours ready to be at hand, in order to administer justice. Rote 69.—”Red is in the higher degrees of Masonry as predominating a color as blue is in the lower. Its symbolic significatlons differ, hut they may generaliy be considered as alluding either ‘to the virtue of fervency when the symhollsm is moral or to the shedding of blood when It I, historical. Thus in ihe degree of Provost and Judge it Is historically emblematic of the violent death of one of the founders of the Institutlos; while In the degree ot Perfection it Is said to he a moral symbol of seal f~r the glory of Ged and for our own advancement towards perfection in Masonry and ,irtna.”—XsOhsF’5 Enoyolojssiia d V’sssmaaeery, azuels
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CLOSING CI~REMONIES PROVOST AND JUDGE.
Tite—Brother Adoniram, what is our particular duty? Adouiram—The equity of judgment. Tile—How will you fulfill it? Adoniram—By searching for truth. Tile—Where? Adoniram—Everywhere. Tilo—When? Adontram—At all hours. Tile—What is the hour? Adoniram—There is none set. Tile—Why? Adoniram—Because a Provost and Judge must be ready to do justice unto all men at all times and all places. Tile—(Raps seven; all rise,) Brother Adoniram will please notify the brethren that I am about to close this ~ [lodge] of Provost and Judges. Adoniram—Brethren, you will please take notice that the Thrice Puissant is about to close this lodge 6f Provost and Judges. Tige—Together, brethren. (All give the signs from the Secret Master up.) Tile—(Knocks four and one.) Adoniram—(Knocks four and one.) Abd~z—(Knocks four and one.) Tito—I declare this Z [lodge] of Provost and Judges closed.
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tellectual, that a man of ordinary sense finds it a task to read it. The degree preceding this should have followed it in the schedule, as Joaberl’s escape from the
HISki%ORICAL ANALYSIS SBV~NTH 1)EGIt~E 01 )‘EOVOST A2~D
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oing Into toe Loose as a STog moo a Snases Montn—a Silly, weak Anscheonasm—iateilectuai and Moni Ashes—Moore’s Description of Vaise Religions.
Masons who have brolceil 4a eacapeil the snare of the lodge tell us: “You have no idea how different those degrees seem to us, aa you now correctly recite them, from what they did while we were passing through them blindfold; stripped beyond the verge of decency; surrounded by we knew not whom; oaths dealt out to us piecemeal in the night; and we conscious of our physical inability to resist.” Others, apparently men of average ability and sense, have said: “I never feel more perfect satisfaction and delight than when passing or taking others through those interesting, solemn and thrilling degrees.” Outsiders are perplexed by these conflicting testimonies, and either believe opponents uf the lodge monomaniaca or misinformed. Rev. J. B. Baird, while an industrious, hard working mechanic, had paid four hundred and fifty dollars for seventeen degrees. Addressing our first national meeting in
Pittsburg (1868), after describing the agonized struggles he went through to eheape the suare, Mid you will say to me: “If the thing is so horrible why did you take degree after deRree when you kneir what they were ?“ “I’ll tell you,” said he~ “We go into the lodge one degree after another, as a charmed frog goes into a snake’s mouth.” This is the analysis and e~pIanation of this Seventh Degree. In itself, the degree is so loose, low and unin
death of a spy, and his promotion as “Intimate Secretary,” followed the completion of the building of the temple. Yet here we are taken back to the time while the building was going on and when seven Provost
Judges were chosen to rule the three hundred men at work on the temple. And who is the first Provost and Judge? Why, e~Brolher Joaberl,” who did not receive the Sixth De-
gree till after the temple was complete. He is here receiving the Seventh or Provost Degree, to govern and judge the men who are at work on the temple before it is done l Glance at the ritual where the Thrice Puissant, Tilo, says: “Brethren, bear witness to the obligation this I ntimate Secretary is about to take.” But Joabert was not yet an “Intimate Secretary” till
after the temple was done. Yet he here receives the degree as Inlimale Secrelary, to which he was not admitted till after the temple was completed; which degree, we are told in the opening, “King Solomon instituted to preserve peace among the workmen engaged in the erection of the temple.” But beside this silly, weak anachronism, the degree is an attcmpt to surround with awe and dignity; by sworn secrecy, the election of a
simple f6reman or officer of the peace, when there is nothing to conceal but the mere fact and mode of the appointment. If this be so, (and it is), then how are we to account for the fact that this weak and worthless
degree, with others like it, has come to us from the Jesuit College of Clermont in 1754, twenty-two years before American Independence, and is now the Seventh
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Degree of the leading Rite in the United States and in Europe? A careful reading of the propnet Isaiah, 44th Chapter, will show why no absurdities in a system of false religion can be s~ absurd as to break the power of that religion over the minds of its devotees. The burtien of this chapter is a remonstrance against idolatry. To show its utter absurdity the prophet supposes a man to plant, and rear an ash tree; warm himself with part of it, cook his victuals with another part and worship the rest as his god. His explanation of this fatuity, how a man of ordinary sense and understanding could do so, he gives in the following words “They see not nor know. v. 9. They have not known nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes that they can not see, and their hearts that they can not undestand. v. 18. He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; that he can not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand.” ix £0. Now that the makers of these degreea have manufactnred a religion, is precisely as true as it is that the man made a religion who burnt half of his ash tree and worshiped the other half. Bare inspection proves this; and if he did not, Masonic authority settles it. Cunningham’s Manual of this Scottish Rite, in the First or Secre~ Master’s Degree, page 20, says, “Genuine Masonry is a pure Religion.” Masonry then is “a religion,” and being man-made is a false religion; and, if so, (here is something in it which disables its worshippers from knowing the- truth, as did that religion whose god was made from an ash tree. Then the words of Isaiah apply to them and explain how these ineffable degrees live, are kept up. That this Provost degree is intellectual and moral “ashes,” one needs 6nt to read it to know. Ashes
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and the lodge bite and stimulate but do not nourish. And the Mason who practices it becomes color-blind where Masonry is concerned. “A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he can not deliver his soul, nor say, ip them not a lie in my right hand.” Nothing but the power and grace of God can deliver a man whose mind is sunk into that fearful condition. Moore aptly describes the devices of the false prophets and religious imposters in his “Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” thus •~~fl~Q shall have mysterise—a7e, predons stut. For knaves to thrive by—inisteries enough; Dark tangled doctrines, dark as fraud can weave, which simple votaries on trust receive while th~ crattler teigo belief—thU they beUeve.~
Moore resided sometime in Paris while Masonry was at its height in the French Capital. And as his “Fire Worshipers” ore a picture of the wrongs of Ireland, so the Masonic Mysteries of Paris a’e painted to the life in the mysteries of his Veiled Prophet; the debauchery, cruelty and fraud of the leaders, and ~he stupid faith of their duped and despised followers, who, like perjured witnesses, repeat their conned falsehoods till they believe them. But their belief no more excuses them than suicide justifies murder; when a man kills another and then himself. Men enter secret sooieties from motives of curiosity, gain, friendship or popularity. They come to believe in them by practicing their rites.
INThNDANT OF THU BUILDING.
CHAPTER ‘XI EIGHTH
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SCORPIO OR THE SCORPION.
As the former grade was instituted to supply the loss of the chief builder and the Grand Superintendent and Administrator of Justice in the temple, so the object of this was to provide in the place of the one principal architect, five others, to each of whom should be entrusted the care of constructing everything that related to one department of architectural labor. DECORATIONS ~ In this degree the lodge is hung with Note 70.—Intendant of the Building. (Intendant Sn latiment.) ‘This degree Ii sometImes Called ‘Master in israel. • It I. the eighth in tbe Ancient sud Accepted Scottish Rite. Its emblematic color is led; and its prin$pai officers. acording to the old rituals, are a Thrice Puissant. repre. sentlug Solomon; a Senior warden, representing the illustrious Tito. one of the Barodim; and a Junior warden, representing Adoniram. the son of AbCs. But in the present rituals of the two Supreme CouncIls of the United Stetes the three chief officers represent Adoniram. Joabert and Stoikin. but in the working of the degree the past officer assumes the char actor of Solomon. The legend of the degree is. that it was instituted to supply the of the Chief architect of the Temple. “—Mackeys Encyolo. aedia of asonry. Artiols Ibtendant of the Building. Note 7I.—~’The hangings are red. There are twenty.seven lights, with five additional ones in the east, where there is a brilliant triangle, enclosing a circle having on its circumference the letters .1. A. I B.. and in the center J. J. J.; also a blazing five-pointed star. showint in the center the letter J. The spro~ is white, lIned with red and edged with green. In the center a star with nine beams: below the star a pair of balanced scales, with acetic upon the fulcrum; on the movable part of the apron a triangle, with B. A. 1. in the angles. The Jewel is a gold triangle, with the letters B. A. .1. in the angles. J. J. J. In the center. and on the opposite side the letter 0. Age SiTtiS. Hours of work open at break of day, close at seven P. M. The lesson is the sure sstabuihmsnt of the rigbteous.’~—Merr1as Xsmio Diotionary, Article Intendant of the Duilding.
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~ed tapestry, and illuminated by 27 lights, in three groups, one of five li~hta before the Junior Warden; one of seven lights before the Senior Warden; and the third of fifteen lights before the President. In the,East should be a brilliant transparency, a luminous triangle, enclosing a circle having on its circumference the letters J. .A. ‘.1. ~.H.’. and in the centre the letters J. ~.J. ~ also a blazing star with five beams; in the centre the letter “J.” TITLES :—The Master represents King Solomon, and is styled Thrice Puissant: The Senior Warden represents Tito, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Inspector. The Junior Warden represents Adoniram, and is styleA Conductor. The candidate is called Joabert. CLOTHING :—The Thrice Powerful is clothed in royal robes, with a crown and scepter, the brethren in black robes and caps. APRON :—Is white lined with red, and bordered with green. In the center of the apron is ,a star with nine points, above the star a balance. On the flap is a tiiangle with the following initials: B. ~.A.~.J.•. oiwu:—A red watered ribbon from the right shoulder to the left hip, from which is suspended the jewel; which is a gold triangle. On one side of the triangle are engraved the letters B. ~.A.~J.’. translated “Free Mason; 0! God; thou art eternal.” On the reverse are engraved the words Judah, Jah, translated; “Praise be unto God.” The jewel is suspended from the order by a green rosette.
CHAPTER XII
OPENING CEREMONIES INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.
Thru Puissant—(Holding a scepter in his hand) Jllustrio is Brother Tito, are we tyled? Tilo.— We are safe and secure here. Thric. Puiaaant—What is the hour? Tite-—The break of day. Thrice Pui.aaani—(Strikes five, 00000; all rise.) Tito— (With a mallet five raps, 00000.) Adoiaittzm—( With a mallet five raps, 00000.) Thrice Puiaaant—As it is break of day, ‘tis time to begin our work; my brethren, this lodge is opened. (All clap five with their hands, and make the sign of surprise and admiration.) Thric~ Puiasant—(Strikes one and the lodge is seatad.)
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INITIATION.
(The candidate must be barefooted when introduced in this degree.) Solomon—Illustrious Brother Tito, how shall we repair the immense loss we have sustained in the melancholy and treacherous murder of our never to be forgotten Master Hiram Abiff? You know he alone was entrusted with the decoration of the secret chamber where every thing the dearest and most respectable of the Israelites was deposited; there the ark was to be put. and thereby was the presence and protection of the Almighty insured. Scarcely had this great man set about this important work when he was snatched from us by the most horrid and infamous plot. We must therefore endeavor to repair the loss of our worthy Hi. ram Abiff. The fine works of the inner chamber are unfinished, and all is in confusion in the sanctuary. Most Illustrious Brother Tito, give me your advice what to do on this occasion. Tito—Thrice Puissant, I am fully convinced of the loss we have sustained, and of the difficulty to repair it, In my opinion the only resource we have left is to appoint a chief for each of the five orders of architecture, and that we should all unite in giving every assistance in our power toward completing this third secret chamber.
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Solomon—Most Illustrious Brother Tito, your advice is too good to be neglected, and to show yoi. how much .1 am swayed by it, I will now appoint you, brother Adoniram and Abda to inspect and conduct the work. You will now send to the middle chamber and see if there are any of the chiefs of the five orders of a~’chiteoture there “dead to sin and vice.” Ts’to—Brother Expert, you will repair to the middle chamber and see if there are any of the chiefs of the five orders of architecture there dead to sin and vice. Expert—(Goes to door and knocks five; 00000.) Master of Ceremonies—{Knocks 00000 from within.) Kxpert—(Opens the door) Are there any of the chiefs of the five orders of architecture here dead to sin and vice? Master of Ceremonies—(Fol, candidate) Therc is one here—Joabert, dead to sin and vice. Expert—Brother Joabert, are you possessel of zeal enough to apply with scrupulous attention to the work which the Thrice Puissant will commit to your care? Master of Ceremonies—(For Joabert.) I look upon it as the greatest happiness and advantage that I can be blessed with, to have an opporunity with him in the great and glorious object which he proposes; that of erecting a temple to the Almighty, worthy of his glory. &pert—(Shuts the door) Thrice Illustrious there is in the ante-chamber one who says he is dead to sin and vice and looks upon it as the greatest happiness and advantage he can be blessed with to have an opportunity of assisting in the great and glorious object which is proposed to him; that of erecting a temple to the Almighty worthy of his glory. Solomon—Let him be admitted. Expert— (Knocks 00000.)
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Master of Cerernonies—(Knocks 00000 from within.) Ezpert—( Opens the door,) Let him be admitted. He then leads him five times around the [lodgej and then by five steps of exactitudc to the altar, Solomo.n—(To candidate,) I will restore thy Judges as at first, and thy councilors as at ttie teginnxng. The light of the righteous shall be established, for the Lord giveth wisdom; out of his mouth conieth undelstanding and knowledge. Then shhlt thou understand righteousness, judgment and equity, yea every good path. Brother Expert, you will now present the candidate with a sprig of acacia; cause him to lie down and cover him with a red veil. (Order is obeyed.) Solomon—My brother, you now personate again, dosbert, one of the most skillful artisans employed in the construction of the temple. Hiram Abjif had iiot at the time Josben Petsonaung niram AbIS Dead W Sin and he was murdered. vice. finished the fine works of the inner chamber and Holy of Holies. The beautiful symmetry he nad designed was to oe rcalized and the utensils that were to be made, were to avoid all disarray and confusion in use. Joabert was selected to take Hiram’s office as he pos-
sessed science and skill of the highest order. He was the ablest in the use of numbers and measurement of work, but the letters upon the designs prepared by Hiram belonged to the lost word, and it was necessary to know thrt word to understand the designs. My brother, do you know that word? Candidate—I ~ not.
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Solomon—Alas! my brother, the loss of that word is the cause of the greatest disorder and is productive of serious errors; and it is with the hope that by the science of numbers you will be able to recover tihe lost key to the designs that we have sent for you. Hence it is, that in your present posture you ate made to take the place of the deceased master; hence it is that we consider you as “dead to sin and vice,” and hope to see you “alive to virtue and truth.” Brother Expert, you will now cause the candidate to rise and place him in a fitting posture to contract his obligation. Expert raises the candidate, uncovers him and causes him to kneel on a square flat stone opposite the triangular table, behind which brother Tito stands, and in that posture he contracts his obligation.
gree of perfection possible the work commenced by Hiram Abiff, thought proper for effecting this business to employ the five chiefs of the five orders of architecture, assisted by three Princes: Tito, Abda, and Adoniram, his son. He was well convinced of their zeal and abilities, land hoped soon to see their work completed in a masterly manner. We flatter ourselves my brother that you will contribute with all your might to this great end. Your having once represented a dead man must now be to you as an emblem, that in order to succeed in this great work and execute it with the same spirit as our respectable Master Hiram Abiff would have done, you must also be possessed with the same spirit and resolution as he was; which is to prefer death rather than divulge the mysteries of the order. We sincerely hope you will follow this praiseworthy example. In this degree your duty ;~ Io study the principles of order, to find what are the laws of order as applied by man to himself, to moral conduct, to mental operations, to acquisition of knowledge and as a consequence to learn the doctrines and uses of prudence and the difference between prudence and fear. In the previous degrees you acquired the seven points of exactitude, viz: First—As an Apprentice you learned the use of the mallet of strength. Second—As a Fellow Craft you handled the chisel and other implements of wisdom. Third—As a Master you used the trowel of bernity. Fourth—As a Secret Master you carried the urn of self-examination. Fifth—As a Perfect Master you adjusted the keystone which joins a sound mind and a sound body. Sixth—As an Intimate Secretarg you opened the scroll of objective knowledge or education. Seventh—As a Provost and dudge you set up the scales of justice and equity.
OBLIGATION INTENDANT OP THE BUILDING.
I— promise and swear in the presence of th~ Great Architect of the Universe, and of the Thrice fliustrious Brethren here present, ever to keep inviolably secret the mysteries which shall be revealed to me. And to observe all such rules as shall be prescribed to me by the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusaleir., under the penalties of all my former obligations, besides that of having my body cut in two and my bowels torn out. So God help and maintain me in equity and justice. Amen, Amen, Amen. As soon as the candidate has taken the obligation, Expert covers him with, the veil, raises him and seats him on a stool in the middle of the lodge facing the Thrice Puissant. Thrici~ Puissant—My dear brother, Solomon being willing and desirous of carrying out to the highest do.
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Behold now upon the altar those scales o( justice are placed upon a new trestleboard representing the multiplication table invented by Pythagoras, and this is to remind you that arithmetic is the first of sciences and that the Intendant of Buildings received the first scientific degree of Freemasonry and must know that numbers disclose the order and harmony of nature. I will now raise you, uot as you were raised before, but as Hiram was raised by Stolkin, under the sprig of acacia. He then takes the candidate’s right elbow in his left hand and with the right hand the Master’s grip’ and by three different pulls lift him up from the stool and throws off the red veil. Thrice Puissant—Illustrious Brother Tito, you will now invest our new brother with the signs, grips and words of this degree.
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Interlace the fingers of both hands, turn the palms upwards, let the hands fall on the waist, look upwards and
say, Alcar.
SIGNS.
Place the thumbs on the temples, the hands open so as to form a square,. step backwards two paces, step forward two p&ces, then place the hands over the eyes and say, Ben-Rorim.”
Place the right hand on the heart, the left on the hip, balance thrice with the
knees, one says Jai, the other says Jak.”
Sign of OrbS.
sign of5urpstm.
Intendant of Bulidbgi Note U.—”Deuhhwlm. Corruptly spelled benehorlm jn ~ of the .10 rituals. A signiScant wor In the h~h r~sea. probably signifying en tb~t Is f ebnrn.’—XaOha75 EnCy Free.aeaq. ~tieje
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Note W.—”Ual@nides calls it the two-letter name. and darivee it from the Tetragrammaton, of which he says it is an abbreviatIon. Cohere have denied this and amert that Jah I. a name independant of Jeho,ah. hut expressIng the aa~e idea @f the Divine hience. It is uniformly tram. isted in the authorized version of the Bible by the word Lad. heing thr. considered as synonymous with Jehovah, except in Psalm lxviii. 4. where the original word is preserved: Extol him that rideth. upon the heavem by his name JAH.’ upon which the Targum eamment is: Extol him who uitteth on the throne of glory in the ninth heaven; YAN is his asms. “— Leeheys 3noyelo~eedia of lreemaaoasy. Axtisle Uah.
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TOKEN.
Strike one with the right hand over the other’s heart, pass the right hand under the left arm, then seize the right shoulder with the left hand, one says Jachinai, the other Judah.” 9b. lateadant ofInfldiag. JATTINY :—Five equi-timed MARCH :—Five equal steps.
strokes; 00000. The Intendant of the Building ascends “the seven steps of exactitude” and “knows the five points of fidelity.” AGE :—Three times nine years. HOUNS OF woux :—From daylight till seven in the evening. MORAL :—That we should apply ourselves with zeal and energy to whatever work may be allotted us in the temple, remembering that the Lord Creator seeth. worn :—Are those given with the token. You will now be conducted to our Thrice Illustrious who will invest you with the apron, sash and jewel. Thrice Pui.sant—My brother, I now present you with Note 14.—ladah. The whole of Palestine was sometimes called the
land of Judsh. became Judab was a distinguished tribe in obtaining posste sion of the country. The tribe of Judab bore a lion In its standard, and henes the Masonic allusion to the Uon of the tribe of Judab. See alas Genesis xlix. 9, ~J.’.ah is a lions wbelp~ U5e~’a ~qeAsgaeiia at lsemesemry. kt,o~ Juia~.
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the apron and’sash and the jewel of this degree, which is a golden triangle. The letters on said jewel are indicative of the pass word of this degree, the other symbole are already familiar to you. Thrice Illustrious—Brother Expert you will conduct our new brother to the altar a~d proclaim him an Intendant of the Buildings and require all brethren to respect and o1~ey him as such. Rzpert—(Conducts him to the altar, and says:) To the glory of the Grand Ariihitect of the Universe, under the auspice. of the Supreme Council of the SSd degree ef the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite, in and for the Sovereign and Independent State of New~ York I do hereby proclaim Brother—rzs an intendant of the Buildings and I do hereby require all brethren to reaped and obey him as such.) Thrice Illustrious—Together brethren, (All give the battery by clapping hands five equal times.) Thrice Illuatrtoua—Brother Expert you will now conduct our brother to his seat among us. Expert conducts him to the East and seats him. LECTURE INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING”
Solomon—Brother Tito, are you an Intendant of the Building or Master in Israel? Tsto—I have talcen the five steps of exactitude, I have penetrated into the inner part of the temple, I have seen the Hebrew characters, the three mysterious J’s without knowing what they meant. Note I5—’Iate~at at the Building, sometimes called Master Is Imel. The eighth degree in the Ancient and Accepted rite. The body in called a Lodge, and its decorations are crimson; the room Is lighted with El lights, arranged in three groups of 9 each, and each group forming a triple triangle; on the altar are 5 other lights. The Master is styled Thrice Potent, and represents ICing Solomon. This depe. was ihatituted
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ply the loss of the chief archiect of the temple. — a Zazeole. sad Dietiemy of 1remaaonay~ 4rilels htesdant of tie Building.
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Solomon—How were you receivea?
Tito—By acknowledging my ignorance. Solomon—Why were you raised in that degree? Tito—In order to dispel the darkness in which I was immersed, and~ to get such light as would regt4ate my heart and enlighwn my understanding. Solomon—Into what place were you introduced? Tito—Into a place full of want and charms, where virtue and sovereign wisdom reside. Solomon—What is the duty of Intendant of the Buildings? Tito—Their duty is to keep the brethren steady in the practice of virtue, by setting them good examples and to correct their works. Solomon-~.—Why is it required in this degree, before you are admitted, to show that you are acquainted with the three first degrees in masonry? Tito—To show that it is only gradually we can arrive at perfect ion. Solomon—What do you learn from those three degrees? Tito—The first teaches me moral, the second political,
and the third heroic virtue. Solomon—.—Why have you been obliged to take steps backwards and forwards in your different degrees? Tito.—To show that the progress toward virtue is slow and gradual, and that by humility we must curb that pride which is so natural to us, before we can presume to hope for perfection, and also that we must judge so impartially of our actions, anl so effectually govern our passions, as not to leave anything exceptionable in our conduct. Solomon—Can you explain the mysteries of our lodge? Tito—I shall endeavor in the best manner I can.
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Solomon—What do the three mysterious letters In your jewel signify? Tito—Judah, Jah, signifying praise be unto God, the third “J,” in the middle of the triangle of the blazing star is the initial of the sacred and present nameless word. Solomon—What does the circle on the inside of the
third triangle signify? Tito—Thc immensity of God who had neither beginning nor ending. Solo nzon—What do the three letters on the inside of
the circle mean? Tito—Oh! thou eternal alone possessest the attributes of the divinity. Solomon—What are the chief attributes of the divinity? Tita—Beauty (6 letters) Wisdome (7) Boundless At ercy (14) Omniscience (11) Eternity (8) Perfection (10) Justice (7) Compassion (10) Creation (8). These attributes form the number of eighty-one (81.) Solomon—Explain the square of nine to me which
you see in the triple triangle. Tito—There are in the first nine, 3 attributes, there are in the second nine, 3 attributes, there are in the third nine, 3 attributes. And if these are in three columna and added together, form a square of eighty-one. Solomon—Why do you place Solomon in the temple? Tito—In memory of his being the first who consecrated a temple to the Lord. Solomon—Why do you place a Brazen Sea in the
temple? Tita—To let us know that the temple of God is holy aiid tbt~t we must not enter it before we have been pun.. fled from all uncleanliness.
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Solomon—What does the left side of the temple signify? Tito—Masonry under all the law of types and ceremonies. Solomon—What does the right side of the temple signify?
Tito—T rue masonry under the law of Grace and Truth. Solomon—Why do you place St. John the Baptist on the right side? Tito—Beeause he was the fore-runner of the temple which .the Lord had ehosen to reside in. Solomon-What is the meaning of the tomb which is under the threshold of the door of the Sanctuary in the
degree of Provost and Judge? Tito—It was to us an emblem that we may be purifled by death before we ean enter the mansion of bliss. Solomon—What does the eandlestiek with 7 branehes signify? Tito—The presence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of those that observe faithfully the laws. Solomon—Why were you barefooted at the time of your reception? Tito—Beeause Moses was barefooted when he entered the holy land. Solomon—What did you hear before you entered the ~ [lodge]? Tito—Five great knocks. Solomon—What do they denote? Tito—The five points of Felieity. Solomon—What happened in consequence of them and what was done to you? Tito—The Expert immediately appeared, who sup. ported and carried me around the temple five time.. Solomon—What was his intention in so doing?
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rito—That I might have an opportunity of admiring its beauties. Solomon-What ideas oceurred to you on this oecasion?
Tito—Surprise, wonder and grief took possession of my mind at that time. Solomon-Why were you thus affected? Tito—I was thus affeeted at the sight of what I saw in the blazing star. Solomon-Pray, what could that be? Tito—The ineffable name of the Grand Arehitect of the Uni~i~e. Solomon—Why had that star only five rays? Tito—It was to show that in the construetion of the temple, the five orders of arehitecture were made use of; secondly, to represent the five points of Felicity; thirdly, the five senses, without whieh no man is perfeet; fourthly, the five lights of masons and fifthly, the five zones inhabited by masons. Solomon—Whieh are the five points of Felicity? Tito—To walk and intereede, to pray, love and assist your brethren, so as to be united with them in heart and mind. Solomon—Why were you seized with wonder? Tito—It was on seeing the beauty and ornaments of
the temple, whereof I saw but a part. Solomon—Why did you not see the whole? Tito—A thiek veil eoncealed a part from me, but I hope the strong desire I have to improve, and my zeal for the Royal Art, will disperse the eloud in time which now obstructs my sight of them. Solomon-Why were you seized with grief? Tito—As all the wonders whieh I saw brought to my remembranee the melaneholy end of our respectable and dear Master Hiram Abiff.
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Solomon—Did you find nature giving way when you indulged your grief? Tito-I must have sunk under the weight of my afflictions if I had not been seasonably relieved by those about me, whom I afterwards found to be my brothers. Solomon-How did you discern them to be your brothers? Tito-By their invoking the Ineffable name, having previously pronounced Jachinai, which I saw in the middle of the blazing star. Solomon—Did you promise to keep these matters secret, and under what penalty? Ttto-I did promise the strictest secrecy, and that under the penalty of having my body severed in two and my bowels torn out. Solomon—How were you made to walk? Tito—-By the five points of exactitude. Solomon—What do you mean by this? Tito-I mean the five solemn steps which I took in advancing to the throne of the powerful King of Israel, when I took my obligation in his presence. Solomon-Why were you obliged to represent a dead
man at your reception, and why then covered with a fiery red cloth? Ttto-In order to denote to us that good masons ought to be dead to the world and its vices. Solomon—What do the scales imply that were put into your hands? Tito-It is an emblem of justice, and given me to- denote that I must do justice by the brethren, and conciliate all difference that may occur among them, and by said scales, I must also weigh my own actions and regulate my conduct, in order to justify the good opinion conceived of me, by being appointed Master in Israel and Intendant of the Laildings.
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Solomon—Have you seen your Illustrious Thrice Nissant Master this day? Tito—I have seen him. Solomon-Where was he placed and how clad?
Ttto-He wa~ placed in the East under a rich canopy bespangled with brilliant stars, and clad in azure and gold. Solomo*—Why was he thus clad?
Tito—Because when the Almighty appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai, and delivered him the tablets of the
law, he seemed to be in a cloud of azure and gold Solomon—Have you any remain8 of darkness about you?
Tito-The morning star enlightened me, and the ‘nysterious one guided me. Solomon—Where were you thus conducted? Tito—.l cannot tell you. Solomon—How old are you?
Tito—Twenty-seven. Solomon—What numbers have you remarked? Tito—Five, Seven and Fifteen. Solomon—Where did you perceive them and what do
they mean? 7’ito-I remarked them in the arrangement of lights, and have already explained the first two numbers, the
last represents the fifteen masters, w’ho found the body of Hiram Abiff under the sprig of acacia, which party was headed by Mah-hah-bone. Solomon—Why did you wear green on your apron 111(1 ribbon? Tito—To teach me that virtue and zeal in masonry are the only roads to lead me to sublime knowledge. Solomon—What does our jewel represent? Tito—The triple e~scnce of Divinity.
CLOSING CEREMONIES INTENDANT OF THU BUILDING.
Solomon-Brother Tito what’s the hour? Tt~e—..Thrice Illustrious, the shades of evening announce a time for repose. Solomon—Since man must rest, let us close our labors trustiug in the Grand Architect who never sleeps; but before we retire, brother Tito declare to us the meaning we give in this degree to the triangle, circle, square and blazing star. Tito—The triangle expresses the triple attributes of the divine essence, the triple nature of man, the triple compositiou of the material world. The circle defines the unity of God-head and the unity of man. The square implies the quadrature of a sane mind with a sound body, and of individuals with society. The blazing star, (having five points) signifies the five points of felicity, or more properly, of order to which man is destined viz:
(first) loving, (second) thinking, (third) working, (fourth) speaking, (fifth) designing. Solomon—(Knocks 00000; all rise.) Tito— (Knocks 00000.) Adoniram—(Knocks 00000.) AlZ—(Knock 00000.) Solomon—I declare this college of Intendant. of the Buildings closed.
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3Ia~ot~,y the Image of the Beast—Abeolute Secrecy and Absolute Deapotlam —Caricature of Chriata BcaurrecUom—aulera of the Darknein of this World.
“Intendant” means superintendent. The word is of French dialect, where these rites were coined by Ramsay and the Jesuits, which are the sum and substance of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite now the ruling rite of the Masonic world. This Eighth Degree opens with an endorsement by repetition of the ridiculous anachronism, that, in the sixth degree Joabert was made Intimate Secretary “after the completion of the temple,” and then was rais-
ed a step higher, to “Provost and Judge,” in the seventh degree, while the work of the Temple was going on, involving the Irishman’s “hoist a peg lower.” As Rev. 13, 14, is believed to teach tl~at Popery suggested Masonry “The Image of the Beast,” and yet Popery and Masonry, in this country, are professed antagonisms; it is of extreme importance that we know
assuredly whether these Scotch Rite degrees were actually the work of the Jesuits, the most active and conspicuous order in the Romish Church. Now the testimony of Rebold, conflrtned by other
Masonic authorities, is: “Another system was established at Lyons by a partisan of the Stuarts, and afterwards worked by the Jesuits.” (Rebold p. 214.) Again “suspicion engendered investigation, and investigation
elicited the fact that these ‘unknown superiors’ were no other than leading Jesuits and partizans of the Stuart interest.” (Ru bold, p. 22.) Pages might be filled with
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similar quotations, asserting over and over again, that
Ramsag and the Jesuits manufactured the first of these “ineffable” degrees; that they formed the basis of “The Rite of Perfection” of twenty-five degrees formed by De Bonneville ~n the Clermont Jesuit College. They were four years later adopted by “The Council of Emperors,” 1758, patented by them to Morin in 1761, sent by him to Charleston, S. -C., and by Morin and others enlarged, by the addition of eight 4egrees, into the present Scotch Rite of 330, which is really the Masonry of our teniples today. Even Mackey, who hates the Jesuits, wineingly acknowledges and records the above facts. (Encyc. Art. Stuart Masonry.) Thus by clear, abundant Masouie authority, it is proved that the substratum and basis of American Masonry was the work of Papists, and that of Jesuit Papists, a society so destructive to civil order that in the year 1773, a Papal Bull was issued dissolving the whole Jesuit order at the demand of France, Spain, Portugal, Parma, Naples and Austria; an order
whose two main pillars are the same as those of the lodge system viz: Absolute secrecy and absolute despotism and control; not only over Protestantism but
over every gQvernment and every institution. This led ihe above Popish governments to demand its dissolution in 1773. And this knowledge of its origin confirms the words of W. H. Seward that Masonry “seeks the destruction of every government which it can not control.”
This also explains the degrees we are considering, this Eighth degree included. If the story of it were translated from its night drama and put in a newspaper it would not be read on account of its insipidity and destitution of merit. Priests do not rely on the intelli
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the supernatural power which inhabits superstition. And what but the most dense superstition could or can induce a crowd to regard and address the chairman of its night-meeting the club as “Thrice Puissant.” To put on “white aprons lined with red and bordered with green ;“ to lead in a candidate bare-footed; all this and more merely to appoint a superintendent of a building, in place of our “dear Master, Hiram Abiff.” The only use and efficacy of such stuff is to furnish a murdered Hiram, as a counterfeit for a crucified Christ; to raise him from the dcad as a ridiculous caricature of Christ’s resurrection, “by the strong grip of Judah’s lion,” as a travesty on Christ’s word, that He had power to raise himself from the dead. “I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.” Three classes of minds would be interested in such a travesty; infidels, priests and devils. And these three are interested in all religious imposture. Their dupes can scarcely be said to be interested; they are “bewitched” rather, as with the sorecries of Simon Magus. Gazing on, and listening to a Roinish mass in an unknown tongue; unknown often to the priest who reads it, the people look solemn it is true, but it is the stolid solem-
nity of cattle in a slaughter yard. But the Mason is below the Papist in this; that, at the close of the solemn fanfaronade, he is sworn to conceal it. We have seen from Masonic authors, that Jesuitism is the mother of Masonry; and that Masonry i~ as like Jesuitism as the Image is like the Beast. And we know where this Jesuitism came from. It was born at night, in a cave near the little town of Enresa, in Spain. The ignorant Cavalier who fancied or feigned that God met
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jutermixed with flames; in the uorth are uine lights— eight close together, and oue by itself. TITLES :—The Master represents Solomon, aud is styled Most Sovereign. There is only one Warden, seated in the West, who represeuts Stolkiu, and is called Inspector, with seveu brethren round him. All the rest of
the brethren are in the South. CWTHING :—The Most Sovereign in royal robes, the Inspector and brethreu all in black robes and caps, or flapped hets.
top of the mountain above the cave is a figure of a setting sun. In the middle of the draft appears a bush as if on fire, and burning by the reflection of a rainbow which seems to stand fixed in order to point out the asylum the murderer had taken refuge in to elude the vigilance of his pursuers. You also see in the draft a winding road, which leads from Jerusalem to Joppa; on this road, near the cave, you see a dog; close to the dog a man following him, behind them at some distance are eight other men without order. ANTE-ROOM DECORATIONS —[n the ante-room must be
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shoulder to the right hip, towards the lower extremity of which are nine red roses, four on each side, and from the ninth is suspended the jewel. JEWEL :—Whieh is a poniard, with a golden hilt, aud a silver blade, or more properly a balance with a scroll and dagger on one plate and the decapitated head of ignorance on the other. DRAFT :—The draft of this chapter is an oblong square at the upper part of which, to the right, is drawn the city of Jerusalem. On the other side is represented a cave not far from the sea, and near Joppa, surrounded with rocks in which you discover a man lyiug with his head on a rock, and a poniard at his feet. You also see in the cave a burning lamp suspended from the ceiling;
a poinard and a lighted lamp, below the lamp in large letters the word “Revenge.” There must also be a spring
of water and a cup to drink from, also on the floor and at the mouth of the cave an effigy of a man as if asleep. IRis head must be loosed from his body. In the chapter the Most Sovereign sits under a canopy in a chair of state covered with black; before him a tri-
angular table covered with black and fiery colored cloth. On said table is a bible, scepter and poniard. Solomon uses a scepter, and the Inspector uses i~ mallet which he holds constantly in his hauds as a token 6f
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CHAPTER XIV NINTH
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Moat Sovereign—Brother Inspecto;, what is the hour? Inspector—Most Sovereign, the dog star rises in the east, followed by the archer, and they are in pursuit of the serpent of Ignorance. Moat Sovereign—Brother Stdlkin, are you an Elected Knight? Stolkin—A lamp lighted me, a cave received me, and a spring refreshed me. Moat Sovereign~—(Knocks eight quick, and one slow; 00000000 0.) Stolkin—(Knocks eight quick and one slow; 00000000 0 with his poniard. (All the brethren knock eight quick, and one slow, 00000000 0; with their bands.) Moat Sovereign-This chapter is opened. At a reception the brethren sit with the right leg over the left, the right elbow on the right knee, the head resting in the palm of the right hand.
Vandidate—(Knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.) Stelkin—Most Sovereign, there is an alarm at the door. Moat Sovereign—Brother Adoniram, see who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations. Captain of Guard—( Goes to the door, knocks eight and one, 00000000 0; then opens door.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—A stranger who demands to speak to the King privately. Captain of Guard—Most Sovereign, it is a stranger who wishes to speak to you privately. Moat Sovereign—Iet him be admitted. Captain of Guard opens the door and admits the stranger, who goes at once to the King and consults with him privately for a few momenta, and then takes a seat. Moat Sovereign—Brethren, I have this moment learned from this stranger that he has discovered an individual Not. TI.—”Ei.ct of Nine. (mu do. Neuf.) The ninth degree of the
Ancient and Accepted Rite. In the old rituals there were two officers who represented Solomon and Stolkln. But in the revised ritual ot the Southern Jurisdiction the principal officer, are a Master and two inspector,. The meetings are called Chapters. The degree details the mode in which certain traitor,, who, just hetore the completion of the Temple, has been engaged in an ezecruble deed of villany. received their punishment. The symbolic color, are red, white and black; the white emhlematic of the nurity of the knights, the red of tue crime which was committed and the black of grief. This is the first of the sin degrees and the one on which the whole gin system has been founded. • —Kacksy’s Rneyoloasdia of Fessmaaonty, Arttcls Elect of Nina.
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concealed in a cave near the coast of Joppa, anawerin~ the description of one of the murderers of our lamented Master Hiram Abiff. He has also offered to condut~t those I may select to the place of his concealment. All rise and request to be partakera in the vengeance due the villaitn. Moat Sovereign—Stop, my brethren, I hereby decree that only nine shall undertake the journey, and to avoid giving offense, I hereby order all your names to be placed in an urn and the first nine that are drawn shall be the brethren to accompany the stranger. Their names are put in the urn, they proceed to b~alot till the. eighth one is elected. Master of Ceremoniea—( Knocks eight and one, 00000000 0; when the brethren resume their former poentions.) Stollcin—Most Sovereign, there ia an alarm at the door. Moat Sovereign-Brother Adoniram, i~ee who knocks i~t the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations. Captain of Guard—( Goes to the door, knocks eight and one, 00000000 0; opens it and says:) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—It is brother Joabert, who comes to ask the favor of receiving the degree of Mastsr Elect of Nine. Captein of Guard—Most Sovereign, it is Joabert who comes to ask the favor of receiving the degree of Master Elect of Nine. Most Sovereign—Let him be admitted. Captain of Guard opens the door; the Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter and advance to the altar. Most Sovereign—Faithful Joabert, what is your wish? Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate,) I come to
188 ask the favor of being admitted into the degree of Master Elect of Nine. Most Sovereign~—Wh5t motive induces you to think you deserve such an honor to be conferred upon you? Master,of Ceremonies—My zeal, fervor and constancy, which I promise shall be doubled hereafter, have made me aspire to beg this favor. Moat, Sovereign—Learn, Brother Joabert, that you are to impute your present admission into this degree and Chapter, less to a desire we may have of conferring this degree on you, than to an inclination we have of making a trial of your conduct and courage, and your compliance with the obligations you have contracted in the different degrees you have received. You may recollect that when you were made a mason after the light was shown you, you saw all the brethren were armed, and you know that it was in your power to claim their assistance in case you were exposed to any danger. You were also aware that those arms were intended for your destruction, to be plunged into your breast, to vindicate masonry, should you be so wicked as to violate your solemn obligations and divulge the secrets of masonry or of masons. Still, notwithstanding, these most sacred and solemn obligations and the severe penalties we submitted ourselves to incur in swerving from them, there have been people so vile as to violate those sacred ties and expose themselves to all the tortures which they had denounced against themselves. Know my brother, that at this present hour we have in our power one of the perpetrators and murderers of our respectable master Hiram Abiff, who groans under the enormity of his guilt, and expects every moment to undergo the rigorous tortures which his crime richly merits, to serve as an example to deter others 5 INITIATION.
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This, brother Joabert, I have just learned from a stranger who is willing to conduct any I may appoint to the place where this miscreant (or Abiram’) is hidden. My dear brother, this illustrious Chapter being fully convinced of your zeal, is much disposed to confer higher degrees upon you, and as I have decreed that only nine shall go with the stranger to the hiding place of the miscreant, and as eight of them have been selected, an opportunity now offers of your being one of that number, to bring this criminal lo condign punishment if possible, adequate to the enormity of his crime. Do you find yourself disposed to vindicate the Royal Art, and sacrifice this traitor in honor of masonry; and do you feel disposed to be one of that number? Candidate—I do. Most Sovereign-I must now inform you, brother Joabert, that this man perhaps, is one of your acquaintances, perhaps a friend; nay, he may be one of your most intimate ones, but in such a case as this, every sentiment must give way to that of revenge, which, with you, is to stifle every other consideration. Be assured of no bad consequences attending your perpetrating the revenge. Besides this is the only opportunity that offers of making us sensible of your zeal by which you will he admitted into this degree. Again I will ask you do you feel disposed to be one of that number? Candidate—I do. Most Sovereign—Faithful Joabert, I shall now select you as the ninth and last of the number. Pursue the Note YS.—”Abtrazn. One •f the traitoroug craftsmen. whaga act of perfidy form. — important a part of the third dagree remivee in acme of the high degftea the name of Abiram Akizep. Them word. certainLy hate a Hebrew look; hut the significant word. of Maaonzp have. in the lapse of time and in iheir tranamisalon through ignorant teachers. heecue so corrupted In form that it Ia aimoet impogaible to trace them to any intelligent floot.”—Maeheya Zaeyeiepeeiia .1 I,aemaaeaay, isUela Abbam.
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murderer of our regretted Master Hiram Abiff, uwk him, seize him and bring him here to suffer the penalty of his horrid crime. Most Sovereign—Vengeance? A 11—Vengeance. Most Sovereign—Brother Adoniram, you will now blindfold brother Joabert and let him be conducted by our stranger to the place where the criminal is. (Candidate is then blindfolded and conducted to the cave.) Captain of Guard—Brother Joabert, you will now suffer yourself to be seated, (seats him on a stone opposite the cave.) Captain of Guard—Be not afraid brother Joabert, I will now leave you for a while. Master of Cerem6nies then shakes a parcel of chains and groans as if under affliction and dread of punishment. Captain of Guard then places Joabert’s left hand on the table and his head leaning on it, and his right hand on his thigh and says: 6aptain of Guard—My dear brother Joabert, I must leave you here alone, but you must promise me on the word of a man, that you will remain in this posture that I now leave you, however alarmed you may be by any noise you may hear. Attend brother Joabert to what Note IS.—”Vangaanoe. A word used in the high degreca. flarr~el. Boblson and the other detractors of Freemasonry have sought to find in this word a proof of the vIndictive character of the Inatitution. ‘in the degree of Kadoab. say. Earroel (Meinoirea, ii. 810) the asaaaaln of Adoniram hecomea the king, who must he alain to avenge the Orand ?.ia.ater Malay and the Order of Masons, who are the aucceseora of the TempiarS No calumny was ever fabricated with so little pretension to truth for it. foundation. The reference I. altogether hiatorical; it it the record of the puniabment which followed a crime, not an incentive to revenge. The word nakam is uaed in Masonry in preciacly the asme sense in which it it employed by the prophet Jeremiah (1. 15) when he apeaka of aikemat Jehovah. “the vengeance of the Lord”—the puniabment which God will inflIct on evil-doera. ‘—Mackay’s Eaoyolopedla of U.aaaaeea,y. Art. vengasasa.
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I say, for if you neglect it, it may cost you your life. What do you say? Candidate—I will. Captain of Guard—And now brother Joabert, as soon as I leave you, when you hear any one knock as a mason, take off the baAdage from your eyes and closely examine every object around you. When you hear a second knocking in a masonic manner, drink of the cup near your left hand. And at the third knocking, do as you shall be prescribed by a voice which will direct you. Though I leave you alone brother Joabert, believe me that the eyes of the whole ~ [lodge] are upon you, therefore I beg that you will not fail, punctually to comply with these instructions. Farewell brother Joabert, I now leave you. Captain of the Guard then leaves him and shuts the door briskly, waits for a minute or two and then knocks the first three. Candidate—(Takes the bandage from his eyes.) Captain of Guard—( Knocks the second three.) Candidate—(Drinks out of the cup.) Captain of Guard—( Knocks the last three and returns to the Chapter.) Master of Ceremonies—Take that poniard and strike the villain first on the head and then on the heart. Cut off his head and take it in your left hand, the poniard in your right and follow me. Candidate— (Obeys the order.) Master of Ceremonies—( Conducts him to the door of the Chapter, knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.) Captain of Guard—Most Sovereign, there is an alarm at the door. Most Sovereign—You will see who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations%
INITIATION. 107 Captain of Guard— (Knocks eight and one, 00000000 0; and opens the door) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—Brother Joabert who has discovered the place where the traitor Akirop” hos been concealed, and has revenged the death of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and comes to lay the villain’s head at the feet of King Solomon. Captain of Guard— (Shuts the door.) Most Sovereign it is Joabert who has discovered the place where the traitor Akirop has been concealed and has revenged the death of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and comes to lay the villain’s head at the feet of his Sovereign. Most Sovereign-Let him be admitted. Captain of Guard— (Opens the door and says: Let him be admitted. Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter and proceed directly to the foot of the throne, candidate at the same time striking the head with his dagger, and cr~ ing revenge. Most Sovengn—(Looking with indignation says:) Oh wretch, what have you been doing? My orden to you were, that the traitor should be brought to me, not that you should put him to death. Your disobedience of my orders shall cost you your life. Stolkin, put him to death. Brethren all kneel on one knee, and at the same time brother Stolkin lays hold of candidate’s head and with his sword stands in the attitude of killing him. Captain of Guard—Thrice Most Sovereign, pardon him! pardon him! It must have been an excess of zeal, and love for the memory of our respectable Master HiNote The name given, in the ritual of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, to one of the ruffians celebrated in the legend of the third degree. The word is said in the ritnal to signify an auaaean.—Maokey’s Innyolopeadla of iveemasonry, hitiola Akirop.
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ram Abiff, certainly that prompted him to disobey his orders. Pardon him. All—Thrice Most Sovereign, pardon him. Most Soveretgn—Brethren I yield to your entreaties, and pardon him in consideration of his zeal for doing his duty. For i~ was necessary and right, for the authority of public justice must prevail and all who resist it must be subdued. Brother Joabert, for the zeal you have manifested in bringing to punishment one of the murderers of our lamented Master Hiram Abiff, I shall now confer upon you the degree of Master Elect of Nine. Come and contract your obligation. OBLIGATION MASTER ELECT OF NINE.
I—do solemnly promise in the presence of the Great Architect of the Universe, and of the respectable brethren here present, and who compose this Illustrious Chapter of Elected Masters, never to reveal Lhe secrets of this degree, with, which I have been or shall be lnade acquainted, to any person whatever, but to a brother known to be of this degree, and in this I bind myself by all my former obligations: I likewise promise to revenge masonry in general, and particularly the most horrid murder that ever was committed. I also promise to protect and support the order and n’y brethren with all my might, credit and power, and also the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem. And if I fail in any part of this my present obligation and engagement, I submit to perish by the vindictive weapon, which shall be given me as an honorablc mark of this order, and as a reward of my zeal, fervor and constancy. So help me God, Amen.
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Most Sovereign—Rise my brother and receive your reward. I do hereby constitute you an Elect of Nine’ and invest you with the jewel of this degree, which is a balance with a scroll and dagger on one plate, and the decapitated head of ignorance on the other. (He then invests him with the apron and kisses him four times on each cheek and once on the forehead.)
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First one raises the peniard and makes the motion of striking the other on the forehead; the other places his hand on his forehead as if to examme the supposed wound. Second raises the arm, strikes at the other’s breast as if with a poniard, and says, Nekam.5’ Note Sl.—”Zleot of Nine. Clootob Naaonq’j—The auth degree cooferred in the lodge of Perfection. Scotch Rite, and the ninth upon the catalogue of that system. There Is a Master with the title of Moat Potent, representing Solomon. with one warden styled Orand inspector. representing Stolkyn, a Treasurer, Secretary, Master of Ceremonies and Captain of the Onard. the isiter representing Zerbal. The hangings are red and white. There are nine ilgbte. The apron is white, lined with black and flecked with blood, having a bloody arm holding by the hair a hloody head; on the movable part a bloody arm with a poinard. The lewd is a poinard. The age is SilO. The lesson is prudence in lode. meat. —MoMs’s Maaonlo Blotlonaq, hitlole Elect of Nina. Iota U,—”According to the Masoretie pointing, Nahain. A Hebrew word signifying Vengeance, and a significant word in the high degrees.’— Mackay’s Encyclopaedia of Treemaacnzy. Loticla Nekam.
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Moat Sovereign-Brother Stolkin, you will now cone duct our new brother to his seat, to listen attentively te the discourse by our Grand Orator. DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR. ANSwER.
Thrice ‘Respectable Brother Elected, the unanimity and earnestness with which this respectable assembly requested your pardon, dIsposed our heari~ to grant it, especially as your crime was owing to an over zeal. In this you have imitated Joabert, King Solomon’s favorite as I am now going to inform you. You, my brother, without doubt recollect the melancholy catastrophe of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff,
Place your right hand on your heart say Nekab.
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Clinch the fingers of your right hand, and at the same time elevate your thumb. The
second seizes y o u r thumb with the right hand, at the same time elevating his thumb; signifying the nine elected, eight close together and one by itself. PASS WORD :—Begoal-Kol. SACRED WORD :—Nekam; answer Nelcak. BATTERY :—Nine strokes by eight and one; 00000000 0. AGE :—Full eight and one. HOURS OF WORK :—From break of day until evening. MORAL :—That
we should be careful how we suffer
ourselves to be led away by an excess of zeal, even in a good cause, to execute on an individual the vengeance due for the violation of divine or human laws.
whose death is the constant subject of our grief and tears; and in this we take an example from the wisest of kings, who bemoaned the irreparable loss he has sustained by his death. You will know that Solomon, on hearing that he was missing, immediately put a stop to building and swore that no person should be paid his wages until this great man was found dead or alive. You will also recollect that brethren went out in search of him, and that Stolkin at length found him assassinated and buried under a sprig of acacia. Stolkin’s good luck on this melancholy occasion endeared him to the King, and procured him his most intimate confidence. Solomon after having the funeral obsequies of that great
man celebrated with as much splendor and magnificence as possible, determined to take public satisfaction of the
perpetrators of that horrid crime and sacrifice them to the manes of his deceased friend. He issued a proclamation promising a considerable reward to any person
who should detect the place where the villains lay concealed, who committed this horrid murder, declaring at the same time that he would even forgive the assassin
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himself, providing he would make his appearance in his presence and ack~iowledge his guilt. But he must give up his accomplices so as to bring them to condign punishment and thus expiate the greatest of grimes. This proclamation was out for a considerable time without his rec~iving any intelligence concernixxg the matter, when one day Solomon was sitting in his hall giving audience to more than ninety (90) masters or other officers of the order, Zerbal the Captain of the Guards, came in and informed him that a strange person desired to be admitted to the King in private, as he had a matter of the utmost consequence and importance to communicate to him. The brethren were alarmed at the readiness with which the King consented to this private audience, for fear of any danger to his sacred person. Said audience proved of short duration and the king’s speedy return removed their fears. He informed them that this unknown person was acquainted with ~he retreat of a murderer of Hiram Abiff, and that he had offered to conduct thither, such people as would choose to accompany him, to inform themselves of the truth of what he had asserted. The brethren all to a man stood up and offered their services to the King on this occasion. The King was highly pleased with their zeal, but declared that among such a number of virtuous brethren, the casting of lots should determine who should have the honor of being employed in this important matter, to bring this odious victim, on whom he intended to wreak his vengeance. Consequently the names of all the Inten-
dants of the Building who were present, were put into a box, and he declared that those nine whose names should be first drawn from the box should be the brethren appointed to follow the unknown man, and bring
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the traitor alive and make him an example to the latut posterity. The lots were drawn, and joy gladdened the faces of those whose names came out first. They received directions from the King to follow the unknown man who would conduct them to the cave which was the traitor’s residence since his crime. They obeyed the order and departed, but one of the nine named Joabert, (whom you this day represented) animated with uncommon ardour, and thinking his brethren walked too slow, got ahead of them and was the first to come to the cave or assassin’s asylum, which was at the foot of a bush that seemed to burn; and a star which had conducted them, appeared to be fixed over the cave. Joabert, inflamed with rage, entered it, and by help of a lamp (which hung in the cave) saw the villain fast asleep lying on his back, with a dagger at his feet. Joabert seized the dagger and struck him with all his might, first on his head and then on his heart, on which the villain sprang up with fury, but immediately dropped down dead at his feet, pronouncing only the word Nekam. Joabert cut off his head, then quenched his thirst at the spring in the cave and was joined by his brethren, whom he was just going to meet. They on seeing the head of the traitor cut off, represented to Joabert that he had commited a fault by his over zeal, and that by thus putting an end to the villain’s life he had rescued him from the tortures which Solomon had prepared for him. They assured hun that Solomon would not pass unnoticed this piece of disobedience of orders, but would certainly punish him for it. They also stated that they would intercede, however, with the king to procure his
pardon. After having quenched their thirst, Joabert took the head and all walked back to Jerusalem. When
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they arrived, Solomon on seeing them was going to give orders for the intended torture, when he espied Abyram’s head in Joabert’s hands, at the sight of which he could not restrain his wrath. He at once ordered Stolkin to put Joabert t9 death, which order he would haye executed if all the brethren had not thrown themselves on their knees and begged him off, as the brethren of this Chapter have done for you, my brother. You see what a deal of instruction may be drawn from the circumstances attending this history: First—By the death that this traitor suffered, that crimes never go unpunished. Sooner or later they meet with their deserts. Secondly—You may learn from the danger which the impetuous Joabert was in, how unsafe it is to exceed our
ordcrs, and that it becomes a necessary duty literally to comply with the orders of our superiors. Thirdly—By the pardon procured for this zealous
brother, you may also learn how easily the heart of a good king is influenced to be merciful. You also see how useful it is to have friends who interest themselves warmly for us on critical occasions. Most Sovereign—(Knocks eight and one; 000000000; all rise.) Moat Sovereign—Let us applaud our newly made brother by the mysterious numbers. (All clap with their hands eight and osie.) LECTURE MASTER ELECT OF NINE.
Moat Sovereign—Brother Stolkin, are you a Master Elected? Stollcin—The ballot has alone determined that matter and I have been made acquainted with the cave. Moat Sovereign—What have you seen in the cave?
175 Stolkin-A light, a poniard and a fountain, witb tha traitor Akirop or Abyram. Most Sovereign—Of what use were these to you? Stoilcin—The light to dispel the darkness of the place, the dagger to revenge the death of our respectable Master Hiramii Abiff, and the spring to quench my thirst. Moat Sovereign—Where were you made a Master Elect? Stollcin—In the hall of audience in Solomon’s palace. Most Sovereign—How many Masters Elected were made at that time? Stollcin—Nine, of whom I was one. LW?URE.
Most Sovereign—From what order and number of
people were they chosen? Stolkin—From upwards of ninety, mostly Intendants of the Building and some masters. Moat Sovereign—What motive prompted you to become a Master Elected? Stolicin—The desire of revenging the death of Hiram Abiff, by destroying his murderers. Moat Sovereign—Where did you find thc assassin?
Stoilcin—In the bottom of a cave, situated at the foot of a burning bush near Joppa, not far from the sea. Moat Sovereign—Who showed you Ihe way there? Stolid n—An unknown person. Moat Sovereign—What roads did you pass through? Stolkin—Through dark and almost inaccessible roads. Most Sovereign—What did you do when you came to the cave? Stollcin—I laid hold of the dagger which I found there and with it struck the villain so violently on the hcad, then on the heart, that he expired immediately? Moat Sovereign—Did he say anything before he died? Stolkin-Give me first letter of the irat syllable,
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and I will give you the first letter of the second syllable. Moat Sovereign-The first is N. Now give me the other. Stolkin—K. Moat Sovereig,~&—What do these two letters N a~id K mean? Btolkrn—Nekam, which signifies revenge. Most Sovereign—How was your election consummated? Stolksn—By revenge, disobedience, clemency and eight and one. Moat Sovereign—Explain this. Stolkir~—By revenge I destroyed the traitor, by disobedience I exceeded the orders given me by the king, and by clemency, through the intercession of my brethren, I obtained the king’s pardon; and lastly, by eight and one, as we were only nine chosen for this business. Moat Sovereign-What did you do after having killed the traitor? StoLkw~—I cut off his head and quenched my thirst at the spring, and being fatigued laid myself down to sleep until my eight brethren entered the cave crying revenge. Moat Sovereign-Row did Solomon behave and receive you when you presented him the traitor’s head? Stolkin—With indignation, as he had proposed to himself much gratification in punishing that villain, and he even doomed me to death, but on account of my zeal, forgave me. Most Sovereign—What did the dark room represent into which you were conducted before your reception? Stolkin-It is the representation of the cave where I found the traitor. Most Sovereign-How came you to be left there blindfolded?
Stolkin,—To call to my mind the traitor’s sleep, an4 how often we may think ourselves secure after committing a crime, when we are in the most danger. Most Sovereign-How did the Elected walk? Stolkin-Darknesa obliged them to put their hands before their eyes and heads, to prevent being hurt or knocking themselves against anything. As the roads were bad and uneven they were obliged often to cross their legs over one another. Most Sovereign-What does the dog represent that you see in the Chapter on the road near the cave? Stolkin-The unknown person or the good citizen who conducted the Elected. Moat Sovereign—What does the naked bloody arm with the poniard mean? Stollcin—The grief still subsisting for Hiram Abiff though one of the murderers was punished, and it was done by a mason; and as yet some unpunished. Moat Sovereign—What emblems do you use to express the number of nine elected? Stolkin—The first, by the nine red roses at the bottom of the black order; second, by the nine lights in the Chapter; third, by the nine strokes of the scepter and mallet and fourth, by the nine kisses, four on each cheek and one on the forehead. These are the emblems of the nine elected. The red is the emblem of the precious blood that was spilt in the temple and ordered to remsin there until revenge was fully completed. Most Sovereign—How do you wear that large black ribbon? Stolkin-From the left shoulder to the right hip with the poniard hanging at the bottom of said order. Moat Sovereign—Of what color is your apron? Stolkin—White skin, lined and bordered with black
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and spotted with red; on the flap a bloody arm holding a dagger, on the apron a bloody arm holding a bloody head by the hair. Moat Sovereign—With what is the Chapter of the Elect hung? Stolkin—With red and white mixed with flames, white flames on the red, and red flames on the white.
The one indicates the blood that was spilt, and thc white thc order of purity of the Elected. Moat Sovereign—Why have you no more than one Warden? Stollcin—Because the Chapters were always held in Solomon’s palace, where no one was permitted but his favorite who was privy to what passed. .11oat Sovereign—What more is to be done’ Stolkin—Nothing, as everything is achieved, and Hiram Abiff avenged. Moat Sovereign—Give me the pass-word? Stolkin—Begoal-Kol.
Moat Sovereign—What is the great word? Stolkin—Nekam. Moat Sovereign—Is there no other pass-word? Stolkin—Yes, there are two more by which we know ~ne another, Joabert and Stolkin. Moat Sovereign—At what time did the Elected sct out for the cave? Stolkin—Just at dark. Moat Sovereign—When did they return? Stolkin—At day break. Moat Sovereign—How old are you? Stolkin—Eight and one, perfect
CLOSING CEREMONIES MASTER ELECT OF NINE.
Moat Sovereign-(Knocks eight and one.)
Stolkin—(Knocks eight and one; All rise.) Moat Sovereign—(Makes the sign by putting his hand on his forehead, and says;) My brethren let us renew our obligations. All make the sign with their poniards together, first at the head and then at the heart. Most Sovereign—(Knocks eight and one.) Stolkin-(Knocks eight and one.) Moat Sovereign—Brethren, ignorance yields to uur repeated vows. Let us advance in our labors. I declare this college closed.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS NINTH DEGREE OR MASTER ELECT OP NINE. Rage for a ilaltitude of Degveea—A Drill of Auaasalnatlon and Revenge
—Turns Lyncb Law Into a ReligIon—John Qnlny Adam. op Musonlo Penaliles—Sweara to “Revenge Masonry In General”—Masonlc Murders Proved in Conrt—”lbei we,, Not at all Aebamed.”
We are still in the purlieus of Solomon’s Temple. The motives which made these degrees were: ‘I’he rage of the French for a multitude of degrees; tlicir willingness to pay for them, and the need of the Stuart pretenders for money. Ramaay went to Paris in 1710, seven years before Masonry was transformed from a mechanic’s club to a rite of worship in the Londan tavern. Ramsay took it at flood tide and it led him to fortune. He invented the Royal Arch degree, and two systems were drawn from and made out of it by Dunkerly and Dermott. Born of humble parentage Ramsay was knighted by the Prince de Turenne. He in conjunction with Jesuits developed a rite of six degrees, called after himself. And, says Mackey, “that his high degrees were afterwards expanded to an unreasonable extent, was not his fault.” And he adds that the Royal Arch “was adopted from Ramsay by the The Council of Emperors of the East and the West and subsequently passed over to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, where it still remains the thirteenth degree.” Macketj Art. Ramsay. And w.hile the thirst for sccret degrees produced them, as a good market produces its supply, it
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was necessary that they should revolve around Solomon’s Temple to give unity to the system by adding degrees at the top of the York Rite. But thiR Ninth Degree surpasses and excels the three preceding it, whIch are apologized for as “containing little symbolic instruction, being “mere recapitulation,” etc. This Ninth is the degree of “Revenge,” and the Ritual is a drill of assassination. Joabert is sent to arrest Abiram, who, without proof produced, is said to be one of the murderers of Hiram Abiff and finding him asleep iii a cave, he cuts oI~ his head and brings it to Solomon by the hair. He is reproved for his haste, but rewarded by being raised to the Ninth Degree, and given an apron, white with blots of blood on it, lined and bordered with black, while on the flap is a bloody arm holding a dagger; and on the apron itself, a bloody arm holding a bloody head by the hair; and the cry of Vengeance! Vengeance !“ is repeated over and again by Master and members in the cave and in the court. Now, considering that these degrees overran France; considering the ignorance of religion among all classes, owing to the ignorance of the clergy and the fearful corruption of the church, no ingenuity of “Earth and bell confederate”
could have formed and let loose among the people a devkce better adapted to form fiends to work the guillotine in the horrors of the revolution which followed,
than this Ninth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted
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Scottish Rite. Lynch law is fearful, but this Ninth Degree turns lynch law into religion. It elevates and adorns lynchers. If Booth, who murdered Lincoln, had been seized, lynched, his head cut of and brought into the Supreme Court at Washington by the hair, and the bringer had been made Provost Marshal of Washing. ton; told to wear this blood-begrimed Masonic apron with a poniard for a jewel, or a pair of scales with a scroll and a dagger on one plate and a decapitated head on the other, and the word “Revenge” in large letters over the heads of the judges ;—blameless and beloved as Lincoln was, and horrified as men were at his murder; if the drama of this degree had been enacted in public upon lynching his murderer, it would have tended to throw the world’s sympathy on the assassin, and sunk the United States in the esteem of mankin’~ to a level with the thugs of India, or the cannibals of African lodges; who pledge fealty to their order by eating human flesh. Yet Maco~j and Macice7j (Notes 76 and 77) dwell, with their accustomed relish, on the ornaments and teachings of this degree; and the latter (Note 79) says: Barn~el and Robi.oii “have sought to find in the word (vengeance) a proof of the vindictive character of the Institution.” And he adds: “No calumny was ever ta,bricited with so little pretension to trUth for its foundation.” If history, and especially American history, presents my character capable of forming and uttering a correct and dispassionate estimate of Masonry and its degrees,
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that character is John Quincy A-¶ams. And his weD known statement of this matter has been endorsed and approved by thousands on thousands, including the 45,000 Masons who seceded in 1828—32; which is this: That “a humane butcher would not mutilate thd~ body of a hog, as Masons swear consent to be mutilated if they fail to keep Masonic secrets.” No wise observing man can place such Masons as Mackey, Macoy and othem, aside of Adams, Robison and Barns.l, without seeing that something has happened to the minds of Masons which makes them blind to common, plain religious truth. A careful reading of this Ninth Degree, and others, will satisfy 999 men in every 1,000 that the whole Masonic system and especially this Ninth Degree, is calculated to harden men and make them vindictive snd callous to deeds of blood. The Master of Ceremonies orders the candidate (who obeys) to kill and cut of a map’s head and follow himself to the presiding officer2of the lodge-meeting, with the poniard in one hand~ and the gory head in the other. Is this lodge play, performed at midnight after prayer, in the presence of the members, calculated to make them loathe assassination and reveuge? The real purpose and object of this assassination drill is not to give zest to an evening’s entertainment. The practical purpose and intent is expressed in the oath in which the candidate is made to swear: “I likewise promise Lo revenge Ma.onr~i in g.neraZ.”
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Aud it is well known, or may easily be known by a little conversation with Masons, that there is no hatred more vindictive than that with which Masons retard a seceder, who, for conscience sake, secedes and exposes the secrets if their order. And yet the gentlemanly and scholarly Mackey (Note 79) says Of Robison and Baimel, who find in this Ninth Degree, proof that Masonry is a vindictive Institution: “No calumny was ever fabricated with so little pretension to truth.” And yet Robison knew whereof he affirmed. He had received, carefully written out, in a box, twelve o’clock at night, in Paris, from a Mason who was fleeing from France with embezzled public funds, all the degrees of a “Perfect Scotch Mason ;“ Parfait Macon Ecosais. Though under no obligation of secrecy concerning these “ineffable” Ramsay and Jesuit degrees, he refrained from publishing their rituals so that outsiders could enter lodges by them, but published the well known book for which Washington thanked Rev. Frederick Snyder, who sent it to him. This Robison and the celebrated Abbe Barrisel are accused by Mackey of “calumny,” because they say Masonry is proved “vindictive” by this Ninth Defree, which swears initiates to “Revenge Masonry in jeneral,” and that with a poniard in one hand mid a bloody human head in the other, to show how his oath bound him to “revenge” the lodge. But if Masonry is one consolidated mass of sworn crime, why are not more actual crimes committed by ~!asonsl The answer is: For the same reason that
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“THEY WREN NOT AT ALL AsHAMED.”
Popery does not burn heretics when she will lose more than gain by it. Masonic crimes are plenty enough in Africa, as Messrs Hinman and Cole are witnesses, both of whom have been there; and the latter, Mr. Cole, was born there, and l~as been in thc African lodges. Other missionaries confirm their statements. But though idolatry is practiced in Christian as well as in heathen countries, the crimes of idolatry in Christian lands must be covered. Nay; lodges sometimes go through the farce of expelling men whose crimes have made them outlaws; while in Africa where murder is not unpopular it is well known that human flesh is eaten as proof of fealty to the secret orders. But we have murders enough proved in open courts on the lodge, as of Pritchard, Miller, Morgan and others, to show that Masonry is murderous in practice, as its oaths prove it to be in theory; and is any one so weak as to suppose the mass of Masonic murders are not secreted as the mass of its proceedings are? The thing, however, to be chiefly noted in this degree is, that it is a lynch law execution of a supposed murderer of J{iram by killing him in his sleep and cutting off his head; when this very murder in the third or Master’s degree has been executed by order of Solomon in a totally different way. (See Bernard’s Light on Masonry, Third Degree.) Now, if this were all professed fools-play, legend, liction or what not, the case were different and might be endured. But this open historic contradiction and
falsehood is solemnly sanctioned by men, not children, and that by oaths and prayers to God, and “they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush.” Jeremiah 6, 15.
MASTER ELIOT 01 IIFZENN.
CHAPTER XV TENTH DEGREE
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This grade very properly follows that of Master Ele~ of Nine, as it gives the continuation and conclusion o, the history of events commenced there: the arrest anti punishment of the two other criminals for the atrocioni crime they had committed, as related elsewhere. DECORATIONS :—The Chapter represents thc audience chamber of King Solomon, and is hung in black spread with red and white tears; in the East is a skeleton repre. Not. 65.—”Maeter Elect of lifte,eu. (Sootob Kaeoaxy.J—The aeveuth degree conferred I. lbs Lodge of Perfection. Scotch Masonry, and the tenth upon the catalogue of that syate.. There are three officers, a Most Potent Master. repreeenting Solomon; A Grand Inspector. repreeenting Stolkin. and a Junior warden. atyled lutroductor; other officera aa in the preceding grade. The aseembly Ia entitled a Chapter. The banging. are red and white. The apron is white, lined with black, with a representatlom of the Temple. having tower, upon it; on the movahle part, three apikee. The jewel is a poinard. How, of work. 5 a. m. to 5 p. U. The leasne I. the certainty of divine Snatlce.”—Me.ria~a Naesml~ Dietlomay, Letiele Reeter Elect ef liftse.,
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eei~ting Jubelum” (Akirop;) in the West, one representing Jubela, (Guibs;) in the South, one representing Jubelo (Gravelot) of whose blood the flies have sucked. Each of these skeletons is armed with that tool with which they perpetrated the murder of Hiram Abiff. The Chapter is ‘lighted by fifteen lights, five in the East before the President, and five before each Warden. ‘mLEs :—This meeting is styled a Chapter. The President is styled Most Illustrious Master. The Senior Warden, Inspector, and the Junior Warden, Introductor. At a reception [initiation] only fifteen elect are allowed to be present in the Chapter, the others remain outside. CLOTHING :—Apron white, lined and bordered with black. On the center is painted a square built city, representing Jerusalem, three gates of which are seen in the distance. Above the gates are three heads impaled on spikes. ORDER :—Ia a black ribbon from the left shoulder to the right hip. Where it crosses the breast, three heads impaled on spikes are painted thereon. JEWEL :—A balance, with a scroll, square and compass, and dagger on one plate, and three decapitated heads on the other. Note 5L—”And so we may through thee. mingled Engliab and French gerruptione trace the genealogy of the word Juhelum; thu.. Ohiblim. Gib. Urn, Giballm. Chlhhelum. Jihlinme, Jihelum. Jahelum. and. Snaily. Juhelum. It meant amply a Fellow craft, and wee appeopriataly given ae a common mine to a particular Fellow Craft, who wee Olatluguleled for hi. treachm. In other word., he was designated, not by a special and dietinctive name hat ha the title of hi. condition end rank at the Tem lo. Hew.. the Yellow Craft, who ieee at the head of a conepiracy. La F.I the name. ef the other two Ruffians, they were readily conetructed out of that of Be f~Iat5et one by a simple change of the termination of the word from a in one, and from em to e in the other. thu. preserving, by a imilarity of name., the Idea of their relationship, for the old rituals mid thet they were brothere who had come together out of Tyre. This derivation emma to me to he eacy. natural end oomprebeuuibie. The from lbllm4han or rether from OThelim is oneword, that iehave far that which one-halfto ofhbelum, the Masonic extraordinary ~nge Saderpone in their treneformetlon from heir w1j~,nel to their present Seem. —Meehay. Znsyelqaedia, .1 isle Reffiam.
CHAPTER XVI Tmr~ Duoau ox
MASTER ELECT OF FIZTBBN. INITIATION.
OPENING CEREMONIES MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.
Moat Illustrious Master—(Knocks five, 00000; and the five candles in the East are lighted.) Inapector—[Adoniram] (Knocks five, 00000; and the five candles in the West are lighted.) Introductor—[Stolkinj (Knocks five, 00000, and the five candles in the South are lighted.) Master—Brother Inspector, what’s the clock? Inspector—Most Illustrious Master, it is five o’clock and the dawn of justice and truth appears in the East. Master—If it is five o’clock and the dawn of justice and truth appears in the East, it is time to begin work. Give notice that this Chapter of Master Elect of Fifteen is about to open. Inspector—Brethren, you will please take notice that this Chapter of Elect of Fifteen is about to open. Master.—(Knocka fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.) Iuspector—(Knocks fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.) Introductor—(Knocks fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.) Master—I declare this Chapter of Master Elect of Fifteen open. Master—(Knocks one and the [lodge] is seated.)
The Master of Ceremonies retires to the ante-room, prepares the candidate, conducts him to the door of the Chapter and knocks five, 00000. Introductor—[Stolkin] (Knocks five, 00000;) Illustrious Master, there is an alarm at the door. Master--Brother Expert, pee who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations. Ezpert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; and opens it a little.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Who’s there? Inspectot’—[Adoniraml it is an Elect of Nine; brother Joabert, who wants to know the other two ruffians” of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff and to arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. Ezpert—( Shuts the door and says:) Most fllustrious Master it is brother Joabert, who wants to know the other two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, Vote N.—’Eleot ci Fifteen. (ZIn jes Quinse.) The tenth degree In
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite. The place of meeting Is called a Crapter; the emblematIc color I. hlsck strewed wIth tears; and the grincipal officers are a Thrice illustrious hiaster and two inspectors. The bistory of this degree develops the continuation end conclusion of the genlabinent Inflicted on three traitors who, just before the conclusion at the Temple. had committed a crime of tj~e most atrocious charecter.
Th~ degree is now more commonly called Zllnetrious Eln ci the hfteen. The seine degree i. found In the Chapter of Emperors of the East end weet. and In the Rite of M~alm.’—Kaekeya ~eyole,aedlsci I.e.. ineeemry, haticle Elect ci Fifteen. Mete U.—Ua*em The traitor, of the third degree are called ~amlaa In continental Maeonry and In the high degrees. The English end American Mason. have adopted In their ritual the more homely ap. piletion of Reflana. The fabricators of the high degrese ~ yauiety of usass for thee. Ainaseins. —Machey’. Eneyclopsedia ciIve~ memy, hittele Re~U.
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the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. Master—Let brother Joabert be admitted. (Adoniram and candidate enter, and make fifteen steps in a triangular manner, and a~~vance to the altar.) Master—Faithful Joabert, what do you wish? Iiaspector—(For candidate,) I wish to know the other two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abifi, and to arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. Master—Brother Joabert, the zeal, fervor and constancy you have shown in the preceding degrees, and more especially in the degree of Master Elect of Nine, had it not been for the intercession of your brethren, would have cost you your life. It is now six months since the execution of Jubelum, of whom this skeleton in the East is a representation; since which time 1. have caused Bengabee’ one of my Intendants in the country of Cheth, to cause diligent inquiry to be made if any person had taken shelter in those parts who might be supposed to have fled from Jerusalem, and I have just received in formation that several persons answering the description of the other two ruffians have arrived there, and believing themselves secure, have began to work in the quarries of Bendaca.” I have also written to King Maacha” of Cheth to have aaJ to arrive at
Vote I1.—”Bengahee. [ScotchMasonry. i—A name Introduced In Scotch Masonry in the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. He was intendant’ of Solomon In the country of Cheth. The name, however, Is not hietoricel. nor Is there any “Country of Cheth” on record.“—.Merrla’e Masonic Die. tkeary’. Article Dengahee. Vote Sg.—”Dendskar. A signIficant word in the hlgb degree. One of the PrInces of Intendants of Sciemon, In whose quarry some of the traitors spoken of In the third degree were found. He Is mentioned in the cats. logue of Solomon’s princes, given in 1 Kings iv. 9. The Hebrew word Is the macf him who dividee or pierces. In some old rituals we Indbenflao& a corruptlon.’—Maokey’s Enoyclc,aedh of Freemasonry,
Article 3e.debar. Mete *.—“Msaoha. In the tenth degree of the Scottish Rite we are Informed that certain traitors fled to “Maacha. KIng of Cheth.” by whom they were delivered no to King Solomon on his sending for them. In 1 Kings il. 59 we find ft recorded that two of the aervante of Shimei fled from erusalem to “AchIsh. son of Meacha. King of Oath.’ There can he little doubt that the carelessness of the early copylats of the ritual led to the double error of putting ~eth for Bath and of supposing that Vasehe was Its king instead of It, kings father. The manuscripte of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tao often copied by unlearned per. sons, show many such corruptions of Hebrew names whIch moderil re-
searches must eventually correct. Delsunay. In his ~huIlenr.makes him ~~%Tgre. a,,d cells him Mahakah.”MaOhey’s ~neyologaedia of free. Aisle Maseha.
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them apprehended, and have requested him to cause them to be delivered to those whom I shall send there •to secure them and bring them to Jerusalem, to receive the punishment due for their crimes~ I have selected fourteen of our most worthy brethren, and zealous masters, and have also selected you as the fifteenth to proceed to the country of Cheth, and secure the other two murderers and bring them to Jerusalem to receive the punishment adequate to their crimes. Do you consent to make the number of fifteen for that purpose? Candidate—I do, most cheerfully. Master-Having cheerfully accepted of the appointmnent, you will now together with the reBt of the brethren whom I have selected, proceed to the country of Cheth, and gain admission into the presence of King Maseha, and deliver to him this letter with a request to apprehend if possible the other twp murderers of Hiram Abiff and deliver them into your charge, to be secured and brought back to Jerusalem to receive the punishment due for their crimes. You will now depart and execute my orders. Master-Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards, you will now assemble your guards and escort the brethren to the country of Cheth. Captain of the Guards forms them into line and all retire except the two Kings and Expert. The Senior Warden now dresses in royal robes and takes the character of Maacha, King of Cheth, and takes the East. Embassy—(Knocks five, 00000.) Expert—( Knocks five, 00000; and opens the door) Who’s there?
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Master of Ceremo.iies—An Embassy from Solomon, King of Israel to King Maacha of Cheth. Expert—Most Powerful King Maacha, it is an Embassy from Solomon King of Israel, who desires an audience with you~r majesty. King Maacha—Let them be admitted. Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; and opens it.) Let them be admitted. Master of Ceremonies with candidate and attendants enter, approach the throne and kneel on one knee. Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful King Maachs, Solomon our King, hearing that a number of his subjects had fled from Jerusalem and taken shelter in this country and are at tbis present time working in the quarries of Bendaca, has sent this embassy into your royal presence to ask permission to search in the quarries for the other two murderers af our lamented Master Hiram Abifi; to secure them and carry them back to Jerusalem to receive the punishment due for their crimes. (Hands the letter to King Maacha, who opens it and pretends to read it.) King Maacha—Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards, you will assemble a sufficient number of your guards and conduct these brethren from Jerusalem to the quarries of Bendaca, cause strict search lo be made therein, and if the murderers are found, let them be bound in chains and delivered to the embassy, to be sent back to Jerusalem, as I should be most happy in havinM my country cleared of such monsters. Captain of Guard—Attention guards. (All rise and form into line in the North.) Captain of Guard—Right face, forward march. (AU retire but Expert and the two Kings.) Master of Ceremonies and candidate with .Captain of the Guard and members find two of the brethren in the
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ante-room, with sleeves rolled up and working with hammer and chisel on some atone, who take the charac-. ter of the other two ruffians. They are seized by Master of Ceremonies and Candidate and bound in chains, and are conducted to the door of the lodge. Master bf (?eremonie8~~(Knocks five, 00000.) Introductor—(Knocks five, 00000;) Most Illuatrious Master, there is an alarm at the door. Master—Brother Expert, see who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations. Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; and opens it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—It is brother Joabert from the country of Cheth, having in charge the other two murderers of Hiram Abiff. Expert—Most Powerful, it is brother Joabert having in charge the other two murderers of Hiram Abiff. Master-Let them be admitted. Expert—( Opens the door.) Let them be admitted. Master of Ceremonies and candidate with two ruffians enter and proceed to the altar. Master—Brother Master of Ceremonies, what tidings do you bring? Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful King, the two ~‘emainingmurderers of Hiram Abiff have been found in the quarries of Bendaca, have been seized, bound and brought back to Jerusalem, and we now have them before you for your righteous judgment. Master-Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards, let them be imprisoned in the Tower of Acbizer, and tomorrow morning let punishment be inflicted upon them adequate to their crimes, and their heads exposed at the gates of tbe palace with tbat of Akirop. Away with them I away with them, I say!
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(Murderers are conducted out of the lodge.) Master—To whom do we owe this signal service? Master of Ceremonies—To Brother Joabert, who after five days’ search discovered them cutting stone in the quarries of Bendaea. Master—And now brother Joabert, for the fervency and zeal you have shown for our order, in bringing to condign punishment the murderers of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, you will now approach the altar and contract your obligation, and be elevated to this sublime degree in order that yau should become equal with your brethren. (Joabert kneels at-the altar.)
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Place the point of the poDiard under the chin, and draw it downward to the waist, as if in the act of ripping open the abdomen.
OBLIGATION MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.
I do promise and swear upon the Holy Bible, never to reveal where I have received this degree, nor even say who assisted at my reception, and I furthermore promise never to receive any in this degree without a full power from my superiors. Nor to assist at any reception unless in a regular manner and Chapter of this degree. To keep exactly in my heart all the secrets that shall be revealed to me. And in failure of this my obligation, I consent to have my body opened perpendicularly, and to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, that the venomous flies may eat of my entrails, my head to be cut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world, and I will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on those who shall disclose this degree and break this obligation. So may God help and maintain me. Amen. Master—Rise Brother Joabert, I greet you, and with pleasure put you in posession of the secrets of the degree.
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Interlace each other’s fingers of the right hand.
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—Elign~im or Eliam. :—Zerbal, answer BenfaA. BATTERY :—Is fifteen strokes by five, 00000 00000 00000. HOURS OF WORK :—From five in the morning until six at eve. MORAL :—That the unerring eye of justice will discover the guilty; and they suffer the punishment their crimes deserve. Master~(Resuming his seat.) And now my brethren join me in applauding the elevation of Joabert to the degree of Elect of Fifteen. (All rise and together give the battery, 00000 00000 00000.) Master—Brother Adoniram, you will now conduct brother Joabert to his seat, to listen attentively to the discourse by our Grand Orator. PASS WORD
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Brother Joabert, in the legends of masonry, the greatest enemy of Hiram or Truth is called Akirop, or Jubelum. He had two companions to whom various nanws have been given. You, brother Joabert, have pursued and destroyed them all three. They represent, first, ignorance or darkness, second, superstition or error, third, egotism or ambition. In the legend or mythology of the Persians, they were Ahiriman’ or the evil principle attended by darkness and chaos. In the mysteries of the Egyptians, they were Typhon” the enemy and assassin of Osiris’ assisted by Serapis and Amenthis. Among the Greeks they were Titan, Python and Chimera. Many myths of the overthrow of the enemies of man and nature were invented. Now it is Jupiter, seconded by Apollo and Pan. Now it is Ormuzd,” aided by the Mote gO.—~’Ahximan. The principle of evil in the system of zoroaster. and as such opposed to Ormuad. the principle of good. He emanated. pure, from the primitive light, and was the second born—Ormuad being the first; hut Abriman. yielding to pride, ambition and hatred .f the first born, or principle of good, was condemned by the Eternal to dwell for 12.000 years in that part of space where no ray of lijht reaches, at the end of which time the contest between Light and lIar nsm. or Good and Evil, will terminate See Zoroaater.~ —Mackay’s Ennyolopeadia of Free. masonry, Aztiele Ahrlman.
Mote •I.—”Typhon. The brother and slayer of Osiris. in the EgyptIan mythology. As Osiris was a type or symbol of the sun. Typhon was the symbol of winter, when the vigor, heat and, as it were, life of the ann
are deatro ed and of darkness as opposed to light.’ ‘—Maoksya Enoyalo. Typhon. Mote U.—”During the last age it was a fashion among the material philoaophero to erpiain all ancient mythology, and the mysteries in this manner, in order to show that they bad no religious sense. This was carried co far that even christ was declared to be nothing but a symbol of the sun and the twelve a~atlea were the twelve signs of the zodiac! we cannot admit that the Osirian myth is to he ezpiained soleiy from the astronomical point of view. It had a higher meaning, and shadowed forth the great mystery ef the world, the conflicts of good and evil, of vice and virtue, and snnouncea that even through persecution and death, ins. tice and truth, and virtue. shail advance to a perfect victory; and that the night of death shah yield to an immortal day.“—Macoy’s Encyolo. psedia and Dictionary of Frsemsaonry. hztiol. Osiris. Mote U.—”Ormurd was the principle of good and the symbol of light, and Abrimmn the principle of evil and the symbol of darkness. ii old Persian re~~ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Az~ Or.
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Amahospands and Szeds. They all agu~e in fixing the period of the victory in the zodical sign of Capricornus, when the sun begins his ascension and when nature resumes her work of annual reproduction. In the degree of Elect of Nine of which you have passed, you have learned that Jubelusn (Akirop) one of the ruffians, wu killed in a cave. That skeleton in the East is a representation of him, with a setting maul with which he was armed when he knocked down Hiram Abif. His head Solomon had embalmed in order to be exposed until the other two were found out. Six months after Akirop was killed, Bengabee” one Solomon’s Intendants, made inquiry in the country of Cheth, tributary to Solomon, when he learned that Jubels, 5’(Guibs) and Jubelo, (Gravelot) the two other asassins had relired there, thinking themselves safe. Note W.—”Ueagabee. Found in some old rituals of the high degrees for Beudekar. se the name of an Intendant of Solomon. It is Eangaher in the catalogue of Solomon’s officers, 1 KIngs iv. 13, the son of Ocher. or the son of the strong man.’ ‘—Maskays Rnoyolop.sdia of Freemasonry, Article Bengahee. Note SL—”Thoae who trace Specnlative Msaon.~ to the ancient solar worship, of whom Ragon may he conSidered as the exponent. find in thin legend a symbol of the conapiracy of the three winter months to destroy the life-giving heat of ihe sun. Those who, like the disciples of the Rite of Strict Observance, trace Masonry to a Templar origin, explain the legend as referring to the conspiracy of the three renegade knights who falsely accused the Order, and thus aided King Philip and Po Clement to abolish Tempiarlam and to slay its Grand Master. Hutc~¶nson and Oliver, who labored to give a Christian interpretation W all the symbols of Masonry, referred the legend to ihe crucifixion of the Messiah, the type of which is, of course, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain. Others, of whom the Chevalier flamasy was the leader, sought to give it a political significance; and, making Charles ihe First the type of the Du~lder. symbollsed Cromwell and his adherents as the conspirators. The Masonic scholars whose aim has been to identify the modern system of Freemasonry with the Ancient Mysteries, and especially with the Egyptian, which they supposed to he the germ of all the others, interpret the conIrstors as the symbol of the Evil Principle, or TIphon. alsying the Good inciple. or Osiris; or, when they refer to the Zoroastic Mysteries of Persia. as Abriman contending against Ormuad. And hatly, in the Philosophic degrees, the myth is interpreted as signifying the war of Falsehood. Ignorance and Superstition against Truth. Of the supposed names of the three Assassins there is hardly any end of variations, fog they materially dlifer in all the principal Rites. Thus we have the three JJJ’. in the York and American Rites. In the Adonhiramite system we have Romvel. Oravelot and Ahiram. In the Scottish Rite we find the names given in the old rituals as Juhelum Akirop. sometimes Ahiram. Juheio Romvel and Juhels Oravelot. Schterke and Oterfut are in some of the Oermsn rituals, while other Scottish rituals have Ahiram, Romvel End Robhen. In all these names there is manifest corruption and the tience of msny Masonic scholars has been well.nlfh exhauste4~ in seek. for some plausible and satisfactory derirstion. ‘—Mackey’s Enoycle. geedia of Freemasonry. Artlois Assassins of the Third Degree,
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INITIATION. 201 Solomon having learned this, wrote immediately to King Maacha of Cheth, desiring him to give up these two villains to the people he should send, in order to receive at Jerusalem the punishment due for their crimes. In consequence of which, Solomon elected fifteen of the most worthy brethren and zealous masters, in which number were included the nine that went to the cave of Akirop. They began their march on the 15th day of the month Tamoaz, which answers to the month of June, and arrived on the 28th of the same month in the country of Cheth, and delivered Solomon’s letter to King Maacha, who trembled at the news and immediately ordered a strict search to be made for the two ruffians, and if found to be delivered to the Israelites, and said he would be happy in having his country cleared of such monsters. For five days there was a strict search made, when Zerbal and Elignam were the first to discover them in the quarries of Bendaca. They chained theni together and loaded them with irons, on which were engraved the crimes they had been guilty of, to have their approaching fate before their eyes. They arrived at Jerusalem on the 15th of the following month, and when conducted to Solomon, he charged them, with the most striking reproaches of their black crimes, and ordered them to be put in the Tower of Achizar, until the day they were t~ bc executed by the most excruciating torments and death proportionable if possible to their crimes. On the day of execution they were tied to two stakes by the neck, middle and feet, their arms behind them. The executioner then opened them from the breast to the arae-pubi.s, and cross wise, and they were left in this condition eight hours, in which time the flies and other insects sucked their blood.
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Their groans and complaint, were so lamentable, that they even moved the executioner, who cut off their heads and threw their bodies over the walls of Jerusalem to serve u food for the crows and wild beasts of the forest. Thus, my brother, we close the history of Muter Elect of Fifteen.
Inspector—Because one of the villains had already suffered before the other two were taken. Most Illustrious Master—What were the names of the two you brought to Jerusalem? Inspector—One was called JubeLa (Gi~ib) and the other JubeLo (Gravelot.) Most Illustrious Master—How were they discovered? Inspector-By the diligence of Bengabee, Solomon’s Intendant in the country of Cheth. Most Illustrious Master-What method did Solomon take to get them? Inspector—He wrote to lvi sacha, King of Cheth, desiring him to make a strict inquiry for them. Most Illustrious Master—Who carried and delivered Solomon’s letter to Maacha? Inspector—Zerbal, captain of Solomon’s Guards. Most Illustrious Master—Did Maacha hesitate to grant Solomon’s request? Inspccto.r—No; on the contrary he gave us guides and a guard. Most Illustrious Master—Where were they found? Inspector—In a quarry called Bendaca’s quarry. Most Illustrious Master—Who was this Bendaca? Inspector—One of Solomon’s Intendants, who had married one of his daughters. Most Illustrious Master—Row came these two ruffians discovered? Inspector—By means of a shepherd who showed us their retreat. Most Illustrious Master—Who perceived them first? Inspector—Zerbal and Elignam, after five days’ search. Most Illustrious Master—How were their chains made? Inspector—In form of a rule and square, on which was engraved the crimes they had committed, in order to have their approaching fate before their eyes. Moat Illustrious Master—When did you return to
LECTURE MASTER ELECT 01 FIFTEEN.
Most Illuatrioua Master-Brother inspector, are you a Grand Master Elected? Inspector-My zeal and my work have procured me this degree. Most Illustrious Master—Where have you been received? Inapectot—By Solomon himself in his audience chamber. Most Illustrious Master-—When did he receive you, and on what occasion? Inspector-When he sent me with my companions to find the two other ruffians. Moat Illtsstrious Master—Were you inquiring after them yourself? Inspector—Yes, Most fllustrious Sovereign, and if I had not been named by Solomon I should at my own expense have gone to show my zeal in revenging the death of Hiram Abiff. Most illustrious Master-You felt then a great joy when you saw those villains executed? Inspector—The three heads I wear on my ribbon are a proof of it. Most illustrious Master-What signify these three heads? Inspector-—They are the heads of the three assassins of Hiram Abiff. Most Illustrious Master—What do you mean by three heads? Did you not tell me you went in search of two villains?
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Jerusalem? Inspector—The flfteenth of the month Ab, which an swera to our month of July. Most Illustrious Master-How long were you on the voyage? ~monthexactly.
Inspector-He was so moved with their cries, that he cut off their heads and flung their bodies over the walls of Jerusalem, as food for the ravens and beasts. Most Illustrious Master—What was done with their heads? Inspector—They were fixed on poles by order of Solomon and exposed to public view, with that of Akirop, in order to give an example as well to the people u to the workmen of the temple. Most Illustrious Master—What was the name of the first villain? Inspector—According to the nine elected, they called him Abyram, but the word is only an emblem, as it signifies viLlain or assassin. His right name is Jubelum (Akirop) and he was the eldest of the three brothers. Most Illustrious Alaster—On which gates were these heads exposed? Inspector—On the South, East and West gates; that of Akirop on the East gate, that of Jubelo (Gravelot) on the West, and that of Jubela (Guibbs~) on the South gate.
Most Illustrious Master-How many masters were elected by Solomon to go on this expedition? Inspector—Fifteen, of which number I was one. Most Illustrious Master-Was there nobody else with you? Inspector-Yes, King Solomon sent troops to escort us. Most Illustrious Master—What did you do with the ruffians after you arrived at Jerusalem? Inspector-We carried them directly into the presence of Solomon. Most Illustrious Master-What orders did Solomon give about them? I1tspector—Afkr he had reproached them bitterly for the enormity of their crimes, he ordered Achizar, Grand Master of the household, to confine them in the tower that bore his name, and that they should be executed the next day at ten o’clock in the morning. Most Illutrious Master—With what kind of death were they punished? Inspector—They were tied naked by their necks and heels to two posts, their bodies cut open from their breasts to the ar’se-pubis and cross wise. Most Illustrious Master—Did they continue any time in that condition? Tnspector—They were thus exposed for eight hours ji& the hot sun, that the venomous flies and insects should suck their blood; which made them suffer even more than death itself. They made such lamentations and cries that they even moved the executioner. Most Illustrious Master-What did he do with them afterwards?
Note S6.—”Ouibba. The names given to the Amasains of the third degree by some of the in,entors of the high degrees are of so singular a form as to hu,e almost irresistibly led to the conclusion that these liames were bestowed by the adhereuts of the house of 5tuaris upon some of their enemies as marks of infamy. 5uch. tot instance, is Romyel, the name of one of the Assassins in certain 5cottiah degrees, which ii probably a corruptIon of Cromwali, Jubelum Guibba, another name of one .1 ihesa traitors, has m,,eh pussieS the Masonic etymologists. I think that I have found its origin in the name of the Re,. Adam Oih, who was an antiburgher clerg~ ni,,n of Edinburgh. when that city was taken lassession of by tbc young Pretender. Charles Edward, in 1745. the •~iergy generally tIed. lInt Gib removed oniy three miles from the city. where, collecting his I yai congregation, he hnrled anathemas for five successive Sundays against the Pretender, and boldly prayed for the ,i,,wnfall of the rebellion. He subsequently Joined the loyal army, and at Falkirk took a rebel prisoner. So active was Gib in his opposition to the cause of the house of 5tuart. and so obnoxious had he become that several attempts were made by the rebels to take his life. On Charlee Edward’s return to Prance he erected in 1747 hia ~Primordisl Chspter~ at Arras; and in the composition of the high degrees there practiced it is y~y probable that he bestowed the name of his old enemy Gib on ihe most atrocious of the Asussins who figured in the legend of third degree. The letter u was doubtless inserted to prevent the French in pronounelug the name from falling into the soft sound of the 0 and calling the word Jib. The additional h and a were the natural and customary results of a French attempt to spell a foreign proper name.’—Maoksys RnqaJo. gaedi~ of Freemasonry Artiole Guibba.
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Most Illustrious Master-For what reason were their heads exposed on the gates of Jerusalem? Inspector—Because they had each of them used their violence at these gates of the temple on Hiram Abiff. For when Jubela (~uibs) had struck him at the South gate with a twenty-four (24) inch guage, Jubelo (Gravelot) struck him with a square at the West gate, and Jubelum (Akirop) gave him the finishing blow with a setting maul at the East gate, which killed him. Most Illustrious Master—What is the word of the Grand Master Elect? inspector—Zerbal and Benjah. Most Illustrious Master—What is the pass? Inspector~ELignam. 4fost Illustrious Master—What are the signs? Inspector—Here they are. You comprehend me? (he gives them.) Afost Illustrious Master—What are the tokens? Inspector—Here they are. (he gives them.)
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me. (Master answers.) Most Illustrious Master—What’s the clock? Inspector—It is six in the evening. Most Illustrious Master—Why six in the evening? Iuspcclor—BeCSUse it was at that hour when the last two SS5ilSSlfl5 expired, by which the death of Hiram is
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CLOSING CEREMONIES SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.
Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, are you a Sublime Knight Elected? Inspector-My name will inform you. Thrice Puissant—What is your name? Inspector—Emeth. Thrice Puissant—What signifies that name? Inspector-A true man on all occasions. Thrice Puissant-What time do you close the Chapter? Inspector-At dawn of day. Thrice Puissant-What’s the clock? Inspector—The dawn of day and tolerance,”5 pesce and harmony prevail. Thrice Puissant-As day appears and tolerance, peace and harmony prevail, give notice that the Chapter of Sublime ‘Knights Elected is closed. Inspector—Sublime Knights Elected, you wili please take notice that this Chapter is closed. Thrice Puissant-Together, (Sublime Knights all Clap seven, 0000000; and the Chapter is closed.) lot. lW.—”Tols,ntimn. The pand characteristic of Masonry Is its mnlarstion in religion and politics. In res~ci to the latter its toleration ~s no limit. The question of a mans political opInions I, not permitted ~ be broached in the Lodge; in reference to the formee it requires only inst. te see the language of the old charge. Masons shall be of ‘that geligion in which all men agree, leavIng their particoisr opinions to them. in’~—Xseksga Eneyelepaedl. at lreeaassaq, hatlela !elustlee.
KILLING THE REMAiNING ASSASSINS GY 1113AM.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS ELEVENTH DEGREE OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED. “The Dreariest of all Dreary 14o,.ense’—MaUiSe5I Countenaaoe of Es~S worshipers—Admits the Strong Man Armed.
If it has been felt necessary by the Masonic authors of preceding degrees to apologize for some of them as tame, “giving little or no symbolic information,” one would think this Eleventh Degree needed such apology much more. The distinguished Dr. Leonard Bacon, a little while before he died, read over some of these degrees, and in a letter to the writer, said: “‘Masonry seems to me the dreariest of all dreary nonsense.” And that is pre-eminently true of this Eleventh Degree. The lodge is still a “Chapter,” to please the Jesuits, and the clothing of the members the same as in the preceding grade; the three assassins have been killed the second time, and it is too soon to invent a new lynching scene. No murder of a sleeping man in a cave; no bloody head held by the hair; not even a blood-smeared poniard is here to give relish to the game. Even poor Solomon is grown familiar as a half worn coat or hat; so that his title as lodge master has to be changed from “Most Illustrious” in the tenth degree to “Thrice Puissant” in this. In short, the degree is mere repetitious dwelling like the dronings of a weary juggler. ‘What then caused this~ degree to be selected from thousands then in France? And what has kept it alive for 133 years? The answer is given in Note 97, ‘which tells us that
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the fortune of war and the adoption of our present constitution, twelve years before, had convinced the world that there was to be a United States. This Tenth Degree of the Charleston Rite, was the seventh in the Ledge of Perfection, formed in the Jesuit College (see Note 83) with intent, as its name indicates. to lead and govern all the rest. The lodge was called a “Chapter,” which means, a Dean and his clergy. The skeleton of Jubelum, one of the fabled murderers of Hiram, hangs on one side of the hall. The drapery, red and white, the apron lined with black, and the jewel a poniard. The business, or burden, of the degree is the killing of the remaining two murderers of Hiram, by ripping them open from the chin downward and allowing “flies to suck their blood.” The emblematic color, black, flecked with tears. (Note 85.) This degree passed from the Jesuit College into the Rite of The Emperors of the East and West, and so was included in their patent to the Jew, Morin. And, though the three assassins of Hiram had been killed, by the torture which each invoked on himself, in th~e third or Masters degree, which was adopted into this rite as a part of it, they are here killed over again, with new, diversified tortures; doubtless because the Rite of Perfection invented in France and called “Scotch” by Ramsa~j, was intended to be an independent system, separate from English Muonry, to please the young French nobles who despised the English mechanics. But it became necessary to unite the two, to overtop and bring English lodges to support the Stuarts, and that the inventors might avail themselves of English Masonry, which had already spread itself over Europe, as a market for new degrees. The names of these imaginary assassins, invented at
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the Appletree tavern in 1717, are Latin, Jtsbela, Jubelo and Jubelum. But as there was no Latin language till centuries after Solomon, any scholar can see the ridiculous pretense of Solomon’s connection with Masonry centuries after he was~ dead. Ramsay invented for the assassins a new set of names, (Mackey Ency. Art. Awzesins) viz: Alcirop, Guibs and Gravelot, to hide from French aristocrats the ignorance of the English inventors of the lodge. The story of sending to “Maacha, King of Cheth” to find the last two murderers, is metamorphosed from Shimei going to “Achish, son of Maachsh, King of Oath,” I Kings, 2, 89, pursuing steadily the plan of stealing from the Bible freely, everything but the one Mediator and salvation through Him!; thus deceiving multitudes into the belief that Masonry is very like the Bible and equally good. But in the midst of this fraudulent verbosity, the oath of this Tenth Degree has this damning clsuse: After swearing consent to have his “body opened and exposed eight hours to flies,” he is made to swear: “I will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on those who shall disclose this degree.” This sworn assassination, by torture, increases in
intensity as the degrees increase. And yet Masonic writers with a cool impudence, gained from worshiping the “father of lies,” affirm that “Masonry knows no punishment but expulsion from the lodge ! I!” The venerable and beloved Dr. Aydelotte, President of Woodward College, Cincinnati, when asked by a city pastor, who had taken twenty-one degrees: “What je the matter with Masonry ?“ replied: “Matter with Masonry! It is lie all over.” The holy man had long before renounced the three degrees he had taken. (See the oath in the Ritual.) We resd from Milton:—
TO REPLACE POPERY ON THE THRONE OF UNGLAND.
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Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves. Who all the ucred mysteries of heaven. To their own vile advantages shall turn Of lucre and ambition.
If ever the words of Paul, expanded by Milton, had a fulfillment, it was when Ramsay and the Jesuits ~nvented these degrees for money and the hopes of promotion by replacing Popery on the throne of England crushing Protestantism in Europe, and free government throughout the world.
SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.
CHAPTER XVII ELEVflNTH
Dmm OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.’ AQUARIUS OR THE WATER BEAREL
This grade was originally instituted by Solomon as a reward for the zeal and constancy of the true and faithful craftsmen who were engaged in the construction of the temple. In this degree it is the duty of the Sublime Knights Elected to prepare a proper code of statutes for the Elected Knights of Nine and Fifteen. The lecture explains the duties of the Sublime Knights, and the mystic 0, which was composed of F. :.M. :.W. :.O.:. DECORATIONS :—This (lodge] is held in a lace representing an ante-chamber in King Solomon~ palace. Note 31.—’Subllins Knight meet. Sometimes called ?wslvs Iliustrleua Kaighta. The eleventb degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. This degree completes the series of Elect degrees, vIa: Elect of NIne. Elect of Pifteen and Sublime Knight Elect. The legend of this degree speciflee that after vengeance had been taken on the traitors. Solomon. to reward those who had remained faIthful to their trust. as well as to make room for the exaltation of others to the degree of Elect of Pifteen. appointed twelve of these lattcr chosen hy theIr companions, to constitute a new degree, on which he bestowed the titie of sublime Elect, and endowed them with a certain command to provide supplies for the kIn and h household; to see that the lazes were fairly assessed; to snperf tend the collection of the revenue, and to protect the people against rapacity and estortlon of the taz.gstberers. In this degree is shadowed forth the great principle—free constitutions, without which liberty would often be hut a nsme—the trial by jusy of twelve men, whose unanimous verdIct is necessary to convict of crime. The assembly is called a Chapter. it Is lighted with twelve lights, by threes, in the East. West. North and South, esch three forming an equilateral triangle. The presiding officer represents King Solomon, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Sovereign; the two Wardens are styled Inspectors; the Chapter consIsts of twelve mcm. bers only. The apron is white. lined, edged and fringed with ble k. and the flap is hiack. In the middle of the apron is painted or embroidered a fisming heart. The sash is a black ribhon. worn from right to ieft. and on which, over the hresst. is paInted or embroidered a flaming heart; and over that the words vinasi, aut Marl. The Jewel is a sword, worn suspended to the sash. —Maceye Knayelopedla and Dictionary of irs.masonry. Artiele Sublime Knight me....
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It is hung with black tapestry strewed with flaming hearts, and is illuminated by twenty-four light.. TITLES :—The = [lodge] is called a Chapter. At an initiation only twelve brethren are permitted to be present. The Muter represents Solomon and is styled Thrice Puissant. Instead of Wardens, there is a Grand Inspector and a Muter of Ceremonies. CLOTHING :—The brethren are clothed as in the preceding grade. APRON :—White, lined and bordered with black. In
the centre of the apron is a pocket on which is painted or embroidered a poniard surrounded by nine flames. ORDER :—A broad black ribbon from the left shoulder to the right hip, on which are embroidered three inflamed hearts’, or this motto: Vincere Gut Mon. At the bottom of the ribbon hangs a gold poniard with a silver blade. JEwEI,:—The same as the preceding degree, with the addition of threehearts inflamed, on the balance; one in the center and one at each end.
CHAPTER XVIII
OPENING CEREMONIES SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.
Thrice P,Liasant—Brother Inspector, what is your duty to this Chapter? Inspector—To see that we are all secure. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Sublime K.night Elected? Inspector—Thrice Puissant, my name will convinoo you.
Thrice Puissant—What time is the Chapter open? Inspector-.—TWelve o’clock at midnight, the hour ot the reconciliation of reason and feeling. Thrice Puissant—(Knocks seven, 0000000.) I declare this Chapter of Sublime Knight. Elected open. (One rap; all are seated.)
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Abater of Cereiiiotties—(Knocks seven at the door.) Iiispector—Th rice Puissant, there is an alarm at the
door.
Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert see who knocks at
the door of our Chapter. Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks seven and opens it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter?
Master of C~eremonies—Brother Joabcrt, a Master Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the preceding degrees, and beseeches you to confer on him the degree of Sublime Knight Elected. Expert—Thrice Puissant, it is Brother Joabert, a Master Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the preceding degrees, and beseeches you to confer on hii~
the degree df Sublime Knight Elected. Thrice Puissant—Has his conduct been without reproach and are the Illustrious Knights satisfied with it? Expert—(To Master of Ceremonies.) Has his conNate •S.—”Suhlime Knight heated. (Sublime Cb.vtlier sin.). Called also Sublin,e Knight Elected of the Twelve. The eleventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted 5cotttsh Rite lie legend is that it was instituted by King Solomon after punishment had been inflicted on certain traitors at the Temple. both as a recompense for the zeal and constancy of the litus. trious Elect Fifteen, who bad discovered them, and also to enabie him to elevate other deserving brethren from the loser degrees to that which had been vacated by their promotion Twelve of these fifteen he elected Sublime Knights and made the selection by hailot that be might give none offense, putting the names of the whole In an urn. The first twelve that were drawn he formed into a Chapter. and gave them command over the twelve tribes, bestowing on them a name which In Hebrew signifies a true man. —Maeheya Enayelapaedia of Freemasonry, Artlale Sublime Knight Elected.
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duet been without reproach and are the Illustrious Knights satiaded with his conduct? Master of Ceremonies—All here present are satisfied with his conduct. Expert—Thrice Puissant, all here present are satisffed with his conduct. Thrice Ptsissant—Then let him be introduced in a proper manner. Expert—Let Brother Joabert be introduced in a proper manner. Master of Ceremonies puts a naked sword in his right hand with the blade across his body, a compass in his left hand with the points to his heart. Thus arranged he conducts him into the Chapter and seats him in the West iu front of the Inspector. Thrice Puissant-Brother Master of Ceremonies, why have you led Joabert into our presence? Master of Ceremonies—To beseech the Thrice Puissant to confer this Sublime degree upon him, for by his valor, veracity and vigilance he has won the hearts of his brethren, and.they have chosen him to represent them in this assembly of Sublime Elected Knights and to join you in studying the laws the Grand Architect has written- upon the hearts of all men, so that legislation may be a unit and a blessing instead of being a curse. Thrice Puissant—The right of the masonic people to representation, is consecrated from time immemorial; and on this occasion it is with joy 1 learn the choice of your fellows has fallen on Joabert. It is the just reward of your merit, brother Joabert, and we greet you in this assembly where you now may see the scales of justice adorned by the symbols of the affections, to express that justice should be tempered with mercy, that the law must be conceived in a spirit of love, and that the happiness of the people does not exclusively depend upon rigid expressions of wrong, but also upon a generous display of sentiment.
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7’hrice Puisiant—Brother Expert, you will now teach brother Joabert to travel.
Expert divests him of his sword and compasses which he hands to the Master of Ceremonies, makes the candidate cross his hands on his breast, and conducts him hrst to the West; causes him to kneel and say Civi. Thrice Puissant—Ky. (Candidate rises.) Expert conducts him to the South where he kneels, from thence to the North where he kneels, and from thence to the East, in front of the Thrice Puissant, where he kneels also. Thrice Puissant—Brother Joabert, you have been caused to kneel at the four points of the compass in allusIon to the four gates of the temple, and the respect we should have to enter a place consecrated. You will
now contract the solemn obligation of a Sublime Knight Elected. OBLIGATION 5UBLIME KNIGHT ELECTED.
I—promise and swear on the same obligatiQns I have already taken and contracted to keep secret the degree of the Sublime Knights Elected, with which I am going to be entrusted, as well in regard to masons under this degree as to the profane. I furthermore promise to adore my God, to be faithful to my country, to be charitable -to my neighbors and brothers, submitting myself in case of any infraction of this my obligation, to have my body severed in two, my memory, lost and looked upon as infamous and foreaworn. So God and his Holy evangelists be my help.
Amen.
Thrice Ptsissant—( Puts his sword three times on the candidate’s head.) Brother Joabert, I greet you as a Sublime Knight Elected, and pledge you in a cup of wine as generous as that poured out by GanymeJe to
the Olympian gods, for it denotes our sincere feelings towards you as a member of this Council, towards thosE you represent, as well as towards all mankind. (Wine is then poured out in three glasses, then the
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Thrice Puissant, Expert and Candidate touch glasses.) Thrice Puissant—Brother Joabert, we pledge you in the wine cup and welcome you as a member of this Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected. (All three drixik.) Thrice Puissatlt—Arise Brother Joabert and receive the recompense due you. (He then decorates him with the sash and apron and gives him the sign, grip and word.)
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Cross the arms on the breast, the fingers clinched, and thumbs elevated.
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the right hand of the
other, and with the thumb strike thrice on Ihe first joint of the S.condTokfl. middle finger. 3.&TI!ERY :—Twelve equi-timed strokes, 000000000000. HOURS OF LABOR :—From low twelve until daylight. ~iss woRn :.—Stotkin; (running of Water.) SACRED WORD
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:—Adonai. the true and faithful brother will
MORAL :—That
sooner or later receive his just reward.
Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now conduct brother Joabert to his seat in the Chapter while our Grand Master of Eloquence delivers the discourse. DISCOURSE BY GRAND MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.
My dear brother, let your heart be entirely devoted to enjoy the ecstacy of innocent joy, with springs of fuli satisfaction to feel all the emotion that it will inspire
Sign. Sublime .5nlgbt Ulocted. TOKENS.
First—Present to each other the thumb of the right hand, the fingers clinched. One seizes the thumb of the other and reverses
thrice his wrist. One says Berith, the other one says Neder, the first then says Shelemoth.
you with; bless a thousand times this happy day which will open to you the perfection you desire. In short. congratulate yourself with having reached the degree of Sublime Knight Elected which we have just given you. Do not think that it is one of the imaginary and proud titles which have neither origin or ground for it. Open the sacred books, search in the holy history and you will find the Epoch of your state.
There you will
see the excellence and privileges of it. I should without doubt pass tjhe limits of an ordinary ‘discourse if I was to take up time to let you know the whole extent of it. I will leave the natural curiosity to those who ought to be willing to know perfectly the state which they
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have embraced, with care to muikis the necessary inquiry for the knowledge you ought to possess. I will be satisfied to expose the duties and obligations of it. The promise you have just now made and contracted in the quality of( Sublime Elected Knight, is the great-
est and most solemn of them all. I will not speak to you of the prudence with which you have so often laid the law of, on yourself, you know that virtue too well, and with the.practice of it it must be so familiar ~toyou that it would be needless to exhort you to it; and for that reason we fear no violation from your side. I shall only renew to you the importance of the promises you just now have made and which are the chief matters of your obligation. There is no one in this degree who has not submitted like you, and in short, if all men have indispensibly fulfilled those duties you just now imposed on yourself, with what zeal, what eagerness and what ardour, should not a Sublime Elected
Knight acquit himself. We first promise to love and adore God. This is the natural law which is engraved in us. I say more, which came into the world before us, and who is he that could transgress this duty and not render the lawful tribute to him which is owing from us to the vilest creature he has formed, sustaining us only by the means of his power which he may destroy or annihilate without our being able to accuse him of rigour and injustice. This is, my Illustrious Knight, the first of your duty, that Reason teaches, Truth shows and Justice establishes to us. Youhave also promised to be faithful to your country. Is there any among us who does not feel it perfectly and is not fully convinced of the necessity of this part of our obligation of loyalty, as we conform ourselves to
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the customs which have been established for all thoe who as well as you, attained to a degree as eminent am this in which you are now clothed, and to whom is trusted the glory of justice which you have in your hand. We mu4 now, my brother, explain to you the names and letters which werc shown you when you were initiated in our sublime degree and mysteries. It is not one of the common names which has neither sense, reason nor signification. It is a name which is as those in use in eastern nations, showing the virtue of those who are found worthy of having it. Yours in the quality of Sublime Knight Elected is Emeth” a Hebrew word signifying “a true man on all occasions.” Can tl~ere be any better or more glorious name, and would it not be a shame and disgrace to any of us who should expose himself to do anything and be capable of degeneraling from it? Now let us come to the allegorical explanation of the figures you have seen in the draft: they will serve to instruct you in the sense and science of your state, and teach you to unfold little by little, the moral sense. They contain the precepts you ought to follow, the principles on which you ought to act, and the duties you have to fulfill. The Elected as you know, were those Solomon chose to watch the work which was done in the temple after the death of Hiram AbuT. The temple was at last finished and completed to its last perfection. God appeared satisfied with this building which was consecrated to him. It is that cloud in which theyhave been willing to lob U.—”One of the word. in the high degree.. It signifies intsgri~. UgU~, bsusss, and constancy in keepin~ a ~romiae. and esrciaiil !rtth as OppoSed to falsehood. In e • a e tiightl Uhot of Twelee of the sloycoth degree are called •Prlnces 3meth.’~ which ~ ezaited character who are devoted to trath.~— of 1255580317, Aitiol. Imeth.
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trace the image of God in this draft by the triangle which you see in the cloud; therefore it is very ~asy to make from these two figures a jus1~ and true application. Our hearts are the living temple, where are erected altars which ought to receive the sacrifices which we
make to the Lora. It should always be a temple ivorthy of him. We can never know too much how to employ our time for its construction, neither can we apply ourselves too much to carry offerings which may be agreeable to him. To render ourselves worthy of his favors, we ought to compare to that miraculous cloud which spread itself over the ark, by which God showed the favorable alliance he had made with his people, which is the chief object of the draft now before you. In that box which hangs at the top of the draft, were deposited the hearts
of the victims who were offered to the Lord and which werc accepted sacrifices. If the gift you make of your heart is pure, it will be-
come a true figure of it, and he will not reject the offering of it if all that lies in it is worthy to be offered to him.
You also see the urn; it was therc Solomon ordered the heart of Hiram Abiff15 to be deposited, as an authcntic mark of esteem and tenderness he had for him, which is without doubt a very urgent lesson, which invites us to re-inflame our endeavors in conducting our actions of life, that we may be able to leave behind a memory worthy to be consecrated with respect, esteem and veneration. Vote 100.—”Xsaat of Hiram AblE. There Is a legend in dome of the high degrees and in continental Masonry thai the heart of Hiram AblE was deposited in an urn and pieced upon a inOnnment neal the holy of hofles, and in sonle of the tracing hoards it is represented as a eymhoL The myth. for auch it is. was probably derlyed from the cery common custom in the Middle Ages of persons canaing their bodies to be diumem. bered after death for the purpose of havIng parts of them burled in a church or some piace which bad been dear to them in Iife.”—2Ia~sy’a Enoyolopaedla of Freemasonry. hittols Ksszt of Hiram AblE.
~28 The pair of scales you perceive to be an attribute of justice. It is here exposed your sight to make you remember that t is with that you ought to weigh your proceelng and projects if you are inOul.saG Sy’oit dined to deserve the glorious name of Emeth. The sword with which you arc armed, and given you by the Thrice Puissant has been remittcd you less for a mark of honor and discretion, than to be emINITIATION.
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ployed~.to serve, thsn to be used in order to fulfill the
solemn obligation you have contracted. The key which you also see in the draft is a symbol to teach you to keep’religiously in your heart the secrets with which you are intrusted, as it is a sacred trust that these illustrious brethren have reposed in you. The zealous charity you ought to have for your brcthren, is figured to you by the emblem of an inflamed heart, a true symbol. of it. As it is the principal object, and most indispensable duty of a mason to devote himself to practice virtue, what care ought not an Elected Sublime Mason to have, never to depart from this principle. He who is in the ~
superior degrees ought always to act effectually to render himself worthy of that distinction. Charity is of all virtues, the principal one which satisfies humanity. Instead of the inflamed heart, which was worn (at the
time of the written law) ~s a distinctive mark of the Sublime Elected, we wear a cross the form of which is traced to you. It is the happy epoch of the law of
grace we live in. Since upon the cross was spilled the precious blood of the Sovereign Redeemer to whom we are all indebted, we are all obliged to wear it, not as
a mark which may please our vanity or our affections,
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but as one of the attributes of our condition and a striking object, capable continually to recall us to that divine
author of nature, that Sovereign Master of our days who has been willing to render himself a victim for the
iniquities of our fathers, and to withdraw them from the everlasting torments they had but too much deserved.
You see also the two palm trees, very high and lofty which seem to spread their branches over the tomb of Hiram Abiff. They are the emblem of the everlasting palm, at which we all of us aim, and which are traced
for us to be deserving of it. These, my Illustrious Brother are the chief objects of our draft, which you ought to keep up to, and study the same and be always the subject of your reflections. We flatter ourselves (having so fair a road before you that you will follow it and never enter any other dangerous
path to scatter you from the many great duties you are to fulfill. You will find the exertion so much the more easy for it. In short, keeping firm to your obligations and faithful to your promises, we shall find in you a brother zealous and officially charitable, worthy of bearing the respectable name of Sublime Elected Knight,
which you have now recejved.
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Thrice 1-uiasani—Are you a Sublime Knight Elected? Inspector—Illustrious Thrice Puissant, my name will inform you.
Thrice Puissant—What is your name? Inspector—Emeth. Thrice Puissant-What means that name? Inspector—A true man in all things. Thrice Puissant—How were you arrayed when introduced in this Chapter?
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Inspector—I had a sword in my right hand, the blade across my body and a compass in the left the pointa of which rested on my breast. Thrice Puissant-Why the sword across your body? Inspector—To remind me that my body alLould be severed in two if I ~as vile enough to reveal the-mysteries of this degree. Thrice Puissant—And why the points of the compass on your breast?
Inspector—To show that my actions were encompassed as I was found worthy to receive the degree of .~ublime Elcctcd Knight. Thrice Puissant—How were you reported in the Chapter? Inspector—By seven knocks. Thrice Puissant—What signify these seven- knocks? Inspector—The seven years that were employed in the construction of the temple and its ornaments. Thrice Puissant—What is your sacred word in quality of Sublime Knight Elected? Inspector—A donai, which is God.
Thrice Puissant—And the pass-word? Inspector—Stollcin. Thrice Puissant—What is the sign of the Sublime Knights Elected? Inspector—To cross the arms on the breast, the fingers clinched, and thumbs elevated. Thrice Puissant-What is the sacred sign? Inspector—The promise I made, always to wear the cross in remembrance of my faults, since they are defaced thereby. Thrice Puissant-What is the token of acknowledg•
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ment? Inspector—To take the right hand of a brother slid with the thumb strike three times on the first joint of the middle finger. Thrice Puissant—What signifies this token? Inspector—Lo9e to God, Fidelity to my countr~ and Charity towards my neighbors. Thrice Puissant—What did you see on entering the Chapter?
fore named them Inspectors, that they might be able to
Inspector—Twenty-four (24) lights. Thrice Puissant—What do they signify? I’ispector—The twelve”~ Masters Elected, snd the twelve tribes of Israel. Thrice Puissant—What are the names of the twelve Masters Elected? lnspector—Joabert, Stolkin, Terry, Morphy,’’ Alycuber, Dorson, Kerim, Berthemen, Tito, Zerbal, Beniah, and Gaber. The first nine are those who went with the stranger in search of Akirop, the last three make up the number of twehe (12) Masters Electe6. Thrice Puissant—What employ did Solomon give them? inspector—To superihtend all the masters, and thereNote 1O1.—~The nsme’ of the Twelve Illustrious Knights selected to ~reulde over the twel,e tribes, a. they have been transmitted to us in the ritual of this degree have undoubtedly aauumcd a very corrupted form. The restoration of their corcect orthography, and with It their true
siguiflcstion. is worthy the attention of the Masonic student. ‘—Mackey’s ~cycicpeedia of fr.emssewy• Article Snbilme KnIght Elected. Note lOS.—Merphsy. The nsme of one of the twelve inspectors in the eleventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This name, like the others in the same catalogue. hida deSance to any Hebraic derivation. They are sit either Freao~h corruptions. worse even than jakmai for Shskiush, or they have some allusion to names or events con. nected with the political intrigues of the exiled house of Stuart. which bad. it is kuowu. a connection with some of the higher degrees sprung up et Arras and other places where Masonry was patronized by the iretcnder. This word Morphey may, for instance, be a corruption for Murray. Jsmea Murray. the second son of Lord Stormoni. escaped to the court of the Sluarts in 1715. He was a devoted adherent of the exiled !an~lly and became the governor of the young prince and the chief mm’ ister of his father. ~ho conferred upon him the empty title of Earl of D’,ohar. He died at Avignon in 1770 B~t almost every etymology of this dud must be entirely conjecturaL~—Xackeya Encyclopaedia of Free. masefry. Article Morphey.
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give him an account of what was daily done in the construction of the temple. Thrice Puissant—In what manner were these Inspectors employed to survey the conduct of the workmen? lnspector—.Ioabert had inspection of the tribe of JudaA. Stollein. had inspection of the tribe of Benjamin. Terry had inspection of the tribe of Simeon. Morphy had inspection of the tribe of Ephra.m. Alycuber had inspection of the tribe of Manasseh. Dorson had inspection of the tribe of Zebulofz.. Kerimj had inspection of the tribe of Dan. Berthem c-n had inspection of the tribe of Asher. Tito had inspection of the tribe of Naphtali. Zerbal had inspection of the tribe of Reuben. Beniak had inspection of the tribe of issachar. Gaber had inspection of the tribe of Gad. These twelve masters rendered daily an account as Inspectors to Solomon of the work done by all the rcspective tribes and they received the amount of payment to be distributed to all the workmen of every tribe. Thrice Puissant—What signifies the tomb at the West door of the temple? inspector—It is the tomb where the body of the respectable Hiram Abiff is deposited. Solomon had it placed at the entrance of the temple to show the Israelites how much he was affected at the loss of that grcaL man; dnd did it in honor of him whom he regarded and esteemed as himself. Thrice Puissant—What signifies the I. ~.H.‘.S.~. which you see in the draft? Inspector—The I.’. is the initial of “Jeva” the first
pronunciation of the Ancient Masters Word; the H.’.
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that of Hiram our respectable Master; and the S.:. that of Stolkin who discovered the body of Hiram Abiff. Thrice Puissant—Give me a description of the urn which is on the top. Inspector—In the urn is the heart of our dear Master Hiram Abiff embalmed. Thrice Puissant—What means the letters N.:. and
C.:. on the urn? Inspector—Xinxe, a Hebrew ~vordsignifying the seat
of the soul. Thrice Puissant—And what means the key? Inspector—The symbol tilat we only have the secret and depository of the mason’s secret, and ought to rule our conduct so, to show by example that we are worthy of the trust and charge rcposed in us. Thrice Puissant—And the balance? inspector—Calls to the rcmembrance the obligations laid on us, to be just to our brothers and neighbors, since we are thosc in whom King Solomon has put all his confidence by giving us power to exercise justice and terminate disputes which may arise among masons from the apprentice to the degree of Sublime Knights Elected, ~vhichis above them all. Thrice Puissant—And the sword? inspector—To make use of it as we ought to those who do not walk in the paths of virtue, and are so vile as to reveal the secrets they are entrusted with. Thrice Puissaitt—How long did you take to complete the temple? inspector—Seven years to complete the whole; six for its constructi6n and one for the ornaments and its dedication. Thrice Puissant—How long was the building? lnspector—T~venty cubits. Thrice Puissant—How many precious things have you in the Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected?
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Inspector—Five. Thrice Puissant-What do you call them? Inspector—The a1k of alliance, the golden bor, the two palm trees, the candlestick’’ with seven branches and the veil which is drawn up. Thrice Puissant What signiftes the Ark -
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Alliance. Inspector—It waa the figure of Solomon’s
temple consecrated to God and contained the two tables of the law which God gave to Moses on the holy mountain when he contracted an alliance with the people of !srael. Thrice Puissant The candlestick with a e v e n branches? Inspector—Represents the —
seven planets and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Thrice Puissant A nd what the veilisa of the tern—
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Nuts 153.—’Golden Candleattek. The golden candleetick which was made by Moses for the service of the tabernacle snd was afterwards deposited in the holy pisce of the temple to throw light upon the sitar of incense and the table of 5howbread,was made wholly of pure gold., and had seven branches: that is. three on each side and one in the center. These branches were at equal dlslances. and each one was adorned with lowers like lilies, gold knobs afier the form of an apple. and similar ones resembling an almond. Upon the extremities of the branches were seven golden lamps, which were fed wIth pure olive oil, and lighted ev,ry eyening by the priests on duty. Its seven branches are explaIned in the Ineffable degrees as symbolizing the seven planets. It is also used as a decoratIon in Chapters of the Royal Arch. hut apparently withont any positive symbolic signification. “—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia ~ lassmsscma7, Article Goldea Oandlssttok. lots 104.—”The Symbolism of the veils, however viewed, whethe? collectively or separately, represent the laborious. hut at last successfnl. search for divine truth —Mackeys Znoyolopaedia of Treemasmay, ArtIsle Vehis, Symbolism of the,
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the Babylonian Tapestry which Solomon placed in the temple to separate the holy places from the most holy and sacred place. Thrice Puissant—And what the golden box? inspector—In that box were deposited the hearts of those viclims who~e sacrifice had been agreeable to God. We also ought to deposit our hearts if our actions are as agreeable to him. Thrice Puissant—The palm frees? inspector—They represent the cherubim”’ which did cover the Holy Ark with their wings, as also the joy which Solomon felt to see a puperb monument raised to the glory of the Lord. Thrice Puissant—And what signifies the triangle with the A. :.D. inspector—The cloud that spread over the ark when Solomon consecrated the temple to show to Solomon it was agreeable to the Lord. The letters signify Adonai. Thrice Puissant—What reward did Solomon bestow on the twelve Knights Elected after the consecration of the temple? inspector—He styled them his beloved, instituted them Sublime Knights Elected, decorated them with a broad ribbon with three (3) inflamed hearts and a sword of justice to it; saying to them, you have been the conductors of the works of the temple which I have consecrated lo the Lord; be now the supporters of it against infidels. Thrice Puissant—What denote the three (3) inflamed hearts? Note 105.—”Cheruhim. The two cherubim that overtopped the mex~,seat or covering ot the ark, in the hoir of holles. were placed there by Moses In obedience to the orders of God: ‘And thou shalt make two cherubim of goid, ot beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. And the cheruhim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; towards the mercy-seat shail the faces of the cherubim be.’ ‘ (Exod. xxv. 17. 19)—Kackay’s Encyciopeadia of Vise-
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Inspector—That our hearts ought to be charitable to
our brothers and neighbors.
Thrice Puissant—Explain to me the five letters you have on your cross.
Inspector—The C.’. is the initial of Civi, (to kneel)
K.:. that of Ky, (to riSe) E.’. that of Emeth, S.~. that of Solomon and A.:. in the centre, that of Adonai. Thrice Puissant—What signify the four kneelingis you made before you came to the throne? Inspector—The four gates of the temple and the ri spect we should have to enter a place consecrated to God. Thrice Puissant—What signifies the word Civi, that the Sublime Elected utter when Illustrious, Puissant goes to the throne? Inspector—Kneeling before the Great Architect of the universe. Thrice Puissant—And the word Ky? Inspector—Rise and receive the reward your zeal and labor has deserved. Thrice Puissant—What denote the three (3) knocks given with the sword on the candidate’s head before it is delivered to him? inspector—Strength, Charity and Brotherly Love we ought to have for our brothers. Thrice Puissant—Why have the Sublime Knights Elected naked swords in their hands in the Chapter? inspector—To be always ready to run to the assistance of our brethren in their defence and that of religion against infidels.
Thrice Puissant—Why is not your Chapter opened until midnight?
Inspector—Because some of the Sublime Knights em-
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ployed the day by fighting the infidels and the others in deeds of hospitality, and at midnight they must meet to account for what they have done. Thrice Puissant—Why is the Chapter closed at break
of day? Inspector—To execute during the day what is ordered -
to be done by the Chapter.
CLOSING CEREMONIES MASTI~B ELECT OP
Firrzuw.
Most Illustrious Master—Brother Stolkin, what’s the hour? Stolkin—Victory is ours and Hiram is revenged. Most Illustrious Master—Since victory is ours, and Hiram is revenged, we ought to be satisfied and rest
ourselves. Most Illustrious Master—(Knocks five; 00000.) Stolkin—(Knocks five; 00000.) Adoniram—(Knocks five; 00000.) All—(Knock fivc; 00000.) Moe; illustrious Master—I declare this Chapter of Master Elect closed.
MANIACAL COUNTENANCE OF FALSE
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS TENTH DEGREE OR MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN. The Force of a False RelIgion—Killing the Remaining Assassins of Hiram —Swearing to Assassinate Secedera—To Repiac~ Popery on the Throne of England. “There ye wise saints, behold your light, your star. Ye would be dupes and victims, and ye are. So shall my votaries wheresoe er they rave Proclaim that heaven took back the saint It gave; That Eve hut vsniahed troqi the earth awhile To come again with bright unclouded smiie~ So shall they hnild me altars in their seal. Where knaves shall minister and fools shall kneel —veiled Prophet of Ehorasasa.
When Joseph Snzith lay shot in Carthage jail, men supposed Mormonism was done. They miscalculated the force of a false religion. It was not intellect, reason, worldly prospects, or popularity that saved it. At that time it cou]d offer neither. “The Lord looketh on the heart,” and Satan does the same, when he desires to bring men to himself. Con~idered as addressed to human intelligence, nothing would seem more contemptible than this Tenth Degree, and those immediate]y preceding and following it. And yet these degrees were culled from a mass of degrees which overspread France in 1754, which were sent to this country by a Jew who had abandoned J’udaism Cor the lodge-religion in 1761. And, after forty years’ struggle, during the eventful period of our revolution, war and independence, which engrossed all minds for the time and hung doubtful as in a wavering balance, the lodge then blazed out into this Scotch Rite of thirty-three degrees, at Charleston, S. C., in 1801; after
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the degree was invented “to make room for the elevation of others to the degree of the Elect of Fifteen.” The same reason is given in Note 98. Conquerors and swindlers must go on. Ramsay and his Jesuits had created a market for iww degrees and they must supply it. Standing armies are kept up by ambitious soldiers expecting promotion. The old craft, Masonry, had been swung from its moorings. The Jesuits had added “Select Master, Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Provost and Judge, Intendant of the Building, Elect of Nine, of Fifteen” and now they raise twelve of the fifteen to make room for “other deserving brethren of the lower degrees.” (Note 98.) And as each upper degree is sworn to secrecy from the next and all below, it mattered little what the grade was made of, so that it was a grade. But then there must ever be, besides this, in a false religion, a putting the mind in a posture to receive influence from devils. This every degree has, whether dull or sprightly. The rap which opens the lodge puts the members in communication (en rapport) with Satan, and they became mesmerized by him; each in proportion to the inward consent or prayer which they yield to him. Observing men can see, in the faces of nuns, Masons and mediums, an obvious similarity of expression, or of no-expression which is maniacal or demoniac. And the power which produces that no-expression, is the power which keeps up the lodge. The Monks of all ages have shown by their gross errors and unclean lives that they havc communed with and been influenced or posscssed by uncican spirits. Tn the early centuries there was a class of Monks in Mt. Atltos, called by a Greek name which meant “navel.
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beiwlasre.” They would sit for hours gazing intently on the center of their stomachs and claimed that after gazing thus for a time they became completely illuminated; filled with a clear and wonderful light. But like the whole ~4onkish tribe, they fell into stupid errors and degrading vices. No matter what the posture or worship is, if it is not commanded of God, it is used
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by the devil; and this Eleventh Degree is such a posture and worship and so admits the “strong man armed” to enter the palace of the human heart. This is enough to explain the power of this stupid degree.
But there is another element still. Its pictures represent “The Ark of the Covenant,” which was made by Moses, and “The Golden Candlestick” of the Old Tabernacle, etc.; thus as Milton paraphrases Paul, already cited, these “Grievous wolves Turn all the sacred mysteries of heaven To their owh vile advantegee Of lucre and amhitio~.”
And this is done, not by Christian professors, but by “them that dwell on the earth ;“ (Rev. 18, 14) the same men who make up the lodges. And thousands mistake
thc emotions produced by the sight of these once sacred implements in their midnight orgies for religion. Thus he supports his cruel throne Dy mischief and deceit; And drags the sons of Adam down To darkness and the pit.
OR GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.’’
PISCES OR THE FISHES.
The first eleven degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Rite are a complete course of architecture, and a long and serious study of human nature having been necessary thus to lead man from his primitive state of nakedness to the beneficent forms of society, it must be acknowledged that a mason thus experienced in the prac-
tical science of his profession, has a right to an increase of knowledge; each mason has his peculiar talent and merit, which deserves a proportionate reward, but a mason who by dint of labor has succeeded in ascertaining the origin of things and in combining them together for the good of mankind, is truly a Grand Master Architect. Note iOL—”Orand Master Architect. The twelfth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. In this the prInciples of operative Masonry become promincnt; it is a purely scientIfic degree. in uhich the rules of architecture and the connection of the liberal arts with Masonry are dwelt upon. Although the lectures on the Feliow.Craft degree illustrate architecture from the same point of viei~, the subject is susceptible of great extension, and under the “Grand Master Archiiect~ numerous de. lalis illustrative of the temple dedicated to the Most high by the wisest man might be worked out. In the absence of distinct information urn many points there is some exercise for the imasination in furnish ng a complete description of 5oloinon~s Temple. which was an astonishing sod magnificent work for the time In which It ~vssbuilt: and it seems to have been distinguished from all other temples of remote antiquity by its snmptuousness of detail. The principal oflicera of this de~a~ the Master, denominated Thrice illustrious, and two wardens. The body Is styled chapter. and is decorated with white hangings, strewed with crimson flames; the ornaments are the columns of the five ordera of architecture. and a case of mathematical instruments. “—Macoy’s Enoycioaeiis sad DictIonary of rreeanaacnry, Article Grand Master ArchItect.
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DECORATIONS :—This assembly is called a Chapter. It must be hung with white tapestry strewed with red
flames. The five orders of architecture should be delineated in the Chapter: together with a representation ~ofthe North Star in the North, and seven (7) small stars surrounding it in form of the Ursa Major, signifying that as the North Star is a sure guide to mariners so should virtue be the guiding star of every Grand Master Architect. TITLES :—The master seated in the East represents King Solomon, and is styled Most Powerful; before him a table with a case of mathematical instruments upon it. The Senior Warden in the West is called Grand Inspector; before him a table with instruments upon it. Junior Warden in the South, the same. CLOTHING :—The brethren are clothed as in thc preceding grade, with the order, jewel and spron of a Grand Master Architect. Solomon wears a white robe. APRON :—White
lined and bordered with black. In the
centre of the apron is a pocket. ORDER :—Blue ribbon from the right shoulder to the left hip, at the bottom hangs hangs the jewel. JEWEL :—Is a square medal with equal sides. On one side of the medal must be engraved four half circles with seven stars. In the centre is a triangle with the let~ ters G. A. interwoven thus. On the re-
verse must be engraved the five orders of Architecture; on the top is a level, and below, a square, compass and a cross; in the centre arc the letters B. :.M.:. Below the columns arc thcir initials: Tuscan, Done, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
OPENING CEREMONIES GRAND
MASTER AROHITROT.’’
Most Powerful—(Strikes 0 00.) Senior Warden~—( Strikes 0 00.) Junior Warden—(Strikes 0 00.) Most Powerful—What is your duty Brother Inspector?
Senior Warden—Most Powerful the Chapter is well tyled and the profane cannot penetrate into our mvsteries.
Most Powerful—Are you a Grand Master Architect? Senior Warden—I know what is contained in a perfect case of mathematical instruments. Most Powerful.—.What is contained in a simple case? Senior Warden—A compass with five points, a parallel rule, a scale, a compass of proportion, a protractor, on which are engraven 180 degrees. Most Powerful—Where were you received an Architect? Senior Warden~—In a white place figured with Barnes. Mete IOS.—”Bund Master Architect. (Grand Maitre Architect.) The twelfth degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This Is tctiy a scientific degree, resembling in that respect the degree of fellow Craft. In It the principles of architecture and the connection of the liberal arts with Masonry are unfolded. its officers are there—a Mae. ter and two wardens. The chapter Is decorated with white and red hangings and furnished with the fi,e orders of architecture and a case of mathematIcal Instruments. The apron is white, lined with blue, and the Sewel Is a gold modal. on which are engraved the orders of architecture. Ntis suspended by a stone.coiored rihhon —Machey~ Encyolopandle of lrseaascnry, Article Grand Master Architect,
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Moat Powerful—What do they mean? Senior Warden—The white aignifies the purity of the heart and the flames the zeal of the masters. Moat Powerful—What do the stars in the North mean? Senior Warden-~-That virtue should guide. every~ ma~n in his actions, as the North Star does the marinei in his navigation. Moat Powerful—What is the hour? Senior Warden—The evening star has risen; night and doubt prevail.
Moat Powerful—Since it is so, let us study to find out path. Moat Powerful—(Knocks 0 00.) Senior Warden—(Knocks 0 00.) Junior Warden—(Knocks 0 00.) Moat Powerfid—(Opens the case of instruments) this box is opened. N. B—On a square altar is placed the balance of ~ie preceding degree and at each corner of the altar, iou? columns, Doric, Tuscan, Ionic and Corinthian, which with the Composite Column supporting the balance make the five orders. To ~ach string of the balance is now attached a star, ~(totalsix stars) which with the nine pointed stars already suspended to the balance, and which now represents the North star, makes the seven stars of the Ursa Minor.
CHAPTER XX TWELFTH D~oux OR GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT. IMITIATION.
The candidate must be decorated as a Sublime Knight Elected. Master of Ceremonies—(Knocks 0 00.) Grand Inspector—Most Powerful, there is an alarm at the door.
Moat Powerful—Brother Expert, ascertain the cause of that alarm. Expert—(Goes to the door knocks 0 00; and opens it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—Brother Joabert not being satisfied with the knowledge he has already attained, and the dignities conferred on him, finds he cannot measure distance beyond the reach of his limbs, nor can he find hia path through darkness, or in unknown places. Expert—Most Powerful, it is Brother Joabert who, not being satisfied with the knowledge he has already attained and the dignities conferred upon him, finds he cannot measure distance beyond the reach of his limbs. nor can he find his path through darkness, or in unknown places. Moat Powerful—Let him be admitted. Ezpert—Let him be admitted.
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Master of Ceremonies enters with the candidate and stands him between the altar and the West, facing the
Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I am, (lifting up his eyes.) Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. (1[e turns and gives them.) [See pages 102 and 103.3 Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a Provost and Judge? Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful. I have distributed justice impartially to all the workmen. Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.) [See pages 122 and 123.] Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an Intendant of the Building? Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have taken the five steps of exactitude, I have penetrated into the inner parts of the temple, I have seen the Hebrew character, the mysterious J5 without l~nowing what they nzeau t. Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.) [See pages 142, 143 and 144.] Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an Elected Master of Nine? Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, the ballot alone has determined that matter and I have been made acquainted with the cave. Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and give them.) [See pages 169 and 170.] Most Powerfut—Brother Joabert, are you an Illustrious Elected of Fifteen. Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, my zeal and
East. Moat Powerful—Brother Joabert, what seek you here? Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, Brother Joabert not being satisfied with the knowledge he ha~ already attained and the dignities conferred upon him finds he cannot measure distance beyond the reach of
his limbs, nor can he find his path through darkness or in unknown places.
Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, the desire to know these things is most laudable and should be gratified and for the purpose of teaching them I have established this school of Architects for the instruction of the
craftsmen employed in building the temple, to animate them with a desire of arriving at Perfection in the Royal Art. But before you can be admitted as a member of this school of Architects, you must give me undoubted proof of your knowledge and skill in the degrees you have already taken. Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a Secret Master?
Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have the honor of being received and acknowledged as such.
Most Powerful—Give the Sign, ¶Poken and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.) [~e page 52.]
Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a Perfect
Master?
Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have seen the circles and the square placed on the two columns across. Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.) [See pages 79, 80 and 81.]
Moat Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an Intimate Secretary?
my work have procured me this degree.
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Moat Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. (Re turns and gives them.) [See pages 197 and 198.1 Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a Sublime Elected Knight ?~ Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, my name will inform you. Moat Powerful—Give the Signs, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.) [Seepages 218 and 219.1 Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, it gives me joy unspeakable to find you thus skilled in our Royal Art, and as a reward for the faithful and meritorious, I will now confer upon you the degree of Grand Master Architect; come and contract your obligation. Master of Ceremonies then causes him to take three square steps to the altar, where he kneels and takes the obligation. OBLI0ATIO~J GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.
I—promise and swear on the obligations I have already taken and contracted t~ keep secret the degree of Grand Master Architect with which I am going to be entrusted; as well in iegard to masons as to the profane. I further promise to adore my God, to be faithful to my King and Country, to be charitable to my neighbors and brothers, submitting myself, in case of any infraction of this my obligation, to have my body severed in
two, my memory lost and looked upon as infamous and foresworn. I further promise and consent that my name may be written in red letters and hung up in the Chapter as a mark of my infamy. So God and his Holy Evangelist keep me; amen. Moat Powerful—Arise Brother Joabert, you will now
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take three square steps to the Senior Warden who will invest you with the Sign, Token and Word of a Grand Master Architect. He does as ordered when the Senior Warden invests him as follows: SIGN, GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.
Slide the right hand into’palm of the left as if holding a pencil in one hand, and in the other a tracing board; make the motion of tracing a plan on the palm of the left hand, every now and then directing the eyes towards the Grand Master as if drawing by dictation.
sign Grand Master. ArchltecL
TOKEN, 0. M. ARCHITECT.
Join right hand to the other’s left, interlacing the fingers; place the left hand on the hip; the brother will do the same with his right hand. PAss-WORD :—Rab-banaim.’” SACRED WORD :—Adonai. Note IW.—”Rsbblnicsl Hebrew. and signIfying tbe c~Ief of the creSt. teds. • A significant word Ii~ the high degrees. ‘—Xsekey’s Eae7ciopaedJa St bseme.soar.• Artlol. Babbsaaizm.
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BATTERY :—Three stroke, by one and two; 0 00. MARCH—Make three step so as to form a square,
INITIATION.
the
first step slow, the two others somewhat quicker. HOURS OF wORK—Open on the day when Solomon commenced thet building of the temple. Close ‘on the day the temple was completed. MORAL—That virtue is as necessary as talent to every
Grand Master Architect. Senior Warden—Brother Joaberi, you will now take three square steps to the altar and face the Moat Powerful. (He does so. Moat Povierful—Brother Joabert, Solomon determined to form a school of Architects for the instruction of those who conducted the work of the temple, to encourage and improve such as were worthy, and to promote from thence those whose zeal and discretion should make them deserving the highest degree of perfection, induced him to create the degree of Grand Master Architect.. Solomon, full of justice, and foieseeing the events which were likely to take place, willing to recompense the zeal and virtue of the Sublime Knights, that they might approach nearer the Celestial Throne of the Great Architect of the Universe, induced him to cast his eyes on those who were last made Illustrious Knights in order to effect the promise which God made to Enoch, Noah, Moses and David, that if through ardour they penetrated into’ the bowels of the earth, it would not avail unless divine providence permitted it. The impravements you will now make, Brother Joabert, iu the study of geometry will no doubt procure you the means of unfolding the most sublime knowledge. Upon the altar now before you, behol4 a case of mathematical instruments for that purpose, containing first,
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the parallel ruler, second, the tracing dividers, third, the scale of parts, fourth, sector, fifth, the protractor; and behold a Lao the Polar Star. Brother Joabert, by the help of these we are enabled to measure all distances and guide ourselves through darkness and unknown places.
First—The Parallel Ruler enablcs us to draw two lines equi-distant from each other at every point; so that they never
The ~ 3ul~. can meet, which signifies that the agreement of the works of the Grand Architect is determined by means of equalizing opposition of forces; and hence, that in human government the division and balancing of powers
is essential.
The Tracing Dividers.
Second—The Tracing Dividers enable us to draw distinct and perfect circles and to mark the points they give us. This signifies that we must have a distinct douign before we act. The Scale of Parts.
Third—The Scale of Parts enables us to make all our designs proportionate, so that all the parts and incidents will agree together in fulfilling the object we seek to accomplish. This signifies that truth is self consistent and every distinct truth agrees with all other truth, hence so that one deed may not ultimately clash with another.
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becomes my duty as the Most Powerful to call your at~
Fourth—The Sector enables us to adapt our proportions to the limits assigned. This teaches us to reduce our designs to the measure of our~ means and time. The Sector.
Fifth—The Protractor enables us to draw angled from a given point and to protract and measure lines at all distances. The Protractor.
This shows the necessity of having a fixed and sure
beginning in order to discover truth, or to act with confidence. Sixth—The North Star demonstrates the universal harmony and stability of the works of the Grand Architect of the Universe. In fact the whole planetary system presents a field worthy the attention of the whole civiIized population of the globe, and more particularly the members of the masonic institution—which was originally a school of science. Each and every planet has by the Grand Architect of the Universe been assigned to ~omedefinite position and all of them so arranged b’y divine wisdom to act in concert with each oth&; the combination of which produces to our view an arrangement, the extent of which the human mind cannot comprehend. Some of them are designed to shed light to this planet, earth, and among those and the greatest of all is the Sun which spreads
light and lustre to all within its circle.
You, my worthy brother, having passed through the intermediate degrees and having been endorsed by these Grand Master Architects who now surround you, and among whom you are now admitted a member, it
tention to that great power of attraction known as the North Star, and although it does not shed as brilliant rays of light as others, yet it is of equal importance, and in fact, without its assistance all mankind would be like a blind man groping his way over the trackless ocean or through the prairies of forests, which stand as temporary barriers to the walks of man and the waves in the exercise of their irresistible power, advance or recede as nature or God directs, and as the needle is ever true to the pole by which the mariner can at all times know the course be is pursuing. Let it teach you this moral: You are now on board the ship of life, tossed about on the boisterous sea of trouble, bound for eternity. The
breakers of malice and pei~secution surround your craft, the quicksands of deceit and hypocrisy are beneath you, close under your lee are the rocks of perdition. Now my illustrious brother, is the auspicous moment, place your trust in the Great Architect of Heaven and Earth, take justice for yoir Polar Star, prudence at the helm, temperance for your guide, let your sails fill with the gentle breeze of charity and you will in the end find yourself moored in that peaceful harbor, where
the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. (Shuts the case of instrumenta.) My brother, apply these to all things, moral, mental,
social, religious and political and then we will be proud of you as a Grand Master Architect, to which dignity you are now admitted and to which you are now devoted, which will procure you knowledge sufficient to take away the veil from before your eyes which yet remains there and will enable you to arrive at the perfect and sublime degree. By practicing the many valuable lessons you have learned in the preceding grades, and above all the study of geometry, and by making virtue your guide through the journey through life, we hope and trust that you will be fitted for the dirties of a Grand Master Architect, and gain admission into the
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secret place where you may rest from your labors, and with joy unspeakable, contemplate the pillar of beauty.
My brother, the history of the degree which you have just now taken is short. [would merely say to you that masonic traditiQn informs us that King Solomon established this grade with a view to forming a school of
Architecture for the instruction of the craftsmen employed in the building of the temple and to animate them with a desire of arriving at perfection in the Royal Art.’” He was a prince equally renowned for his justice, wisdom and foresight; he therefore desired to reward the faithful and meritorious craftsmen, so that by perfection in the Art, they might be better prepared to approach the throne of God. He accordingly, for this purpose cast his eyes ~ipon the Grand Masters of the workmen. The Sublime Knights Elected as persons properly qualified to assist him in preparing for the fulfillment of the promise made to Enoch, to Moses and to David, that in the fullnes of time, God would dwell in a axed temple and that his name should be there. Thus my brother, ends the degree of Grand Master Architect. Nots 110.—If I were to deSne qFreemasonry as an.art I ahould any that it ~us an art which taugi~t the construction of a spiritual temple. Just na the art of arebitecture teaches the conatruction of a material temple. And I should Illustrate the train of tdeaa by which the Freemasons were led to symbolise the Temple of Solomon as a spiritual temple of mans usture, hy borroidug the language ~ St. Peter. wbo says to his Christiun initiates: ‘Ye also. ~s Uyeiy atones, are built up a spiritual house. • And with great emphacia. and me attli more illustesti,e, would I cite the language of the Apostle of the Gentiles—that Apostle who, of all others, moat delighted in symbolism and who aaya. •Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirIt of God dweileth In you?,, And this is the reason why Freemasonry is called an art. Baying thus determined the conditions under which Freemasonry becomes an art the next inquiry will be why it has been distinguIshed from all other arts In being designated. par szo.l1.nss. the Loyal hit. And here we must abandon all thought that this title comes in any way from the connection of Freemasonry pith earthly monarchs—from the patronage or the membership of kings. Freemasonry obtains no addition to its intrinsic yalue from a connection with the political hesds of states. Kings, when they enter within its sacred portsls. are nolonlet hinge. but brethren.”—Nankey’s Xnoyelopaedia of FresmasoarT, Artiab Ley~ hit.
CLOSING CEREMONIES GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT. Most Powerful—Brother Inspector, give me the sign? Inspector—( Gives it.) Most Powerful—(Opens his ease of instruments and says:) Let us work, (all the brethren present arrange their instruments on the table three by three.) Most Powerful—(Puts his left hand on the comp.i-~ of proportion, leaning on his right.) Brother Inspedoi do you know only this work? Inspector—I comprehend another. Most Powerful—Give me the token. Inspector— (Advances and gives it.) Most Powerful—Give me the pass-word. Inspector—Rab. Most Powerful—Go on, Brother Inspector. Inspector—Ba. Most Powerful—Make an end. Inspector—Naim. Most Powcrful—(Makes a triangle with his compacs and rule and says,) my dear brethren, we will finish. All—(Replace tTieir instruments in their cases) we finish. Most Powerful—Brother Inspector, what’s the hour? Inspector—The two principles are reconciled, and beauty is generated, the morning star has risen. Most Powerful—(Strikes 0 00.) Brother Inspedor give notice that this Chapter is closed. Inspector—(Strikes 0 00.) Brethren you will please take notice that this Chapter is closed. Junior Warden—(Strikes 0 00.) Brethren you will please take notice that this Chapter is closed. All give the sign and the Chaptcr is closed.
IMPO5ITION OF PRBTRNDED 5CIRNTIFIO INSTRUCTION.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS TWBLFIH Duouz
OR
GRAND MASTER A3OHITRO~.
Masonic .Toua.Soolery and Sbam—The Imposition of Pretended Sciantlie Inatruetion—Objact in Falsifying History.
Macoy (Note 107) declares this degree “purely scien-
tific.” And, though the lodge is still called a Chapter by the clerical inventors, mathematical instruments and columns representing the five orders of architecture are introduced, and the lodge-master, now called “Most Powerful,” opens a case of instrumenti upon a table surrounded by members and says: “Let us work.” And after their going through some ceiemonial shams, says: “We will finish.” And all respond, “We finish ;“ and put up their instruments. Now to see that thia is mere tom-foolery and sham, one has only to look on a Masonic procession and~see who compose it. Judge Daniel sH. Whitney, of Belvidere, Boone County, Ill., while Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 60 in that place7wrole to the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois a letter dated July 6, 1861, in which he says: “I find myself associated as a Mason with drunkards, blackguards, loafers, gamblers, whore-masters and murderers.” And being tried for this and other statementi, Judge Whitney gave in proof facts, from the criminal records of the county, etc. Now the town of Belvidere and its
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lodge, would compare favorably with other town, and lodges in the country, and Judge Whitney testified that there were upright citizens who were members of that lodge; yet, to put mathematical instruments in the hands of any lodge in the United States, with a view to learn or practice the science of geometry or architecture would be simple bald imposture; an imposition which would justify the belief that the men who practiced it had other, ulterior and sinister objects, which they were seeking to conceal by so shallow a pretense. The only rational object and use of this Twelfth Depee is that it gives a drill requiring the candidate b~ give the signs of the French degrees from the Fourth up to the Twelfth; to unify and strengthen the imposture, an object kept constantly in view. It is noticeable that no prayer is inserted in this degree; not even to the “Grand Architect,” Adonai, or other impudent substitutes for..the Bible names of God, which appear in the prayers or this rite. It is noticeable also that The Most Powerful calls Masonry, “The Royal Art,” a title given it by Charles II, (see Rebold, p. 54,) which leads Mackey (Note 110) to a dishonest attempt to disprove the true historic source of that title, because, forsooth, kings who join the lodge are only “brethren.” And yet, Mackey himself, in his articles on Rameag, Stuart Masonry, etc., gives abundant proof that our Scottish Rite sprung up in France, where and when “the lodges were composed of Scotch conspirators and accomplices of the Jeauits.” (Art. Stuart Masonry.)~ That they by Masonry restored Charles and Popery to the British throne, and that Ramaay altered Masonry to suit the French nobility, and that the title “Royal
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Art,” given Masonry by Charles, was adopted and used in that French system, sent here by Mann; and that our American Masonry u that system. And this attempt to obliterate the meaning of the title, “Royal Art,” in this degree, to make the lodge popular in our .
Republic, by denying its history and well known source is a part of its one grand system of fraud and falsification. Mackey’s home was Charleston, S. C., the seat of the Pike Suprema Council, whose rite was brought there by Morin from a “Council of Emperors” in Paris. And the attempt to obliterate the Romish and “Royal” Origin of the Scottish Rite can only succeed by abolishing history. As well attempt to prove that its Supreme Coinmandcr, Pike, did not fight against the United States flag at Pea Ridge; and that “Empire” was not the object of the secession rebellion.
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ARIES OR TIlE RAM.
This is an important arid interesting grade ~n the ineffable series for this reason; the more a Freemason progresses in the study and practice of his Sublime Art the more he feels a desire to penetrate Ihe secrets of nature and to approach us Divine Author. Matters that have only been obscurely hinted at and darkly shadowed forth in the preceding grades, in this, rapidly culminate towards the development of the grand mystery of masonry, fully explained in the Sublime Degree of Perfection. The dark clouds and mists that have hitherto veiled the sacred mysteries now begin to be dispelled; the glorious dawn illumines the East with its bright effulgence and its rays penetrate into dark and hidden places. Vote IU.—”floyal Aich Masonry. That dl,Ision of specnlati,e Vasonry whicb Is engaged in the investigation of the mysteries connected with the Royal Arch, no matter undcr what name or in what Rite. Thus the mysteries of the Knight at the Ninth Arch constitute the Royal Arch uasonry of the Ancient and Accepted Scottiah Rite Just as much as those of the Royal Arch of Zeruhhebei do the Royal Arch of the York end American Rites.’ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemaaonry, Article Royal h,ch Masonry.
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ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.
In this degree, the candidate travels successively Through the Nine mystic Arches of the First Cause or Principle, Existence, God, Immortality, Fortitude, Toleration, Power, Mercy and Joy, which is the term of every successful. labor. This degree is closely connected with that which follows it, and forms a beautiful, solemn and impressive introductory to it. DECORATIONS :—This assembly is styled a College, and as much as possible ought to be holden in a most secret place, a vault under ground without doors 6r windows; in the centre of the top of said vault must be a trap door large enough to admit a man. The vault is supported by nine arches, on each of which is written one of the following names: Principium, Existens, Potens, Eternitas, In.finitum, Solus~ Misericors, Sapientia, Juatus. This college should be hung with red and white hangings and illuminated by nine lights; three in the East, three in the West and three in the South. TITLES :—T here mnst be five officers in the college. The Master seated in the East under a canopy, represents Solomon, and is styled Thrice Puissant Grand Master. He is clothed in a yellow robe, over which he wears a royal mantle of blue satin; a crown is upon his head and a scepter in his hand; he also wears the order and jewel. The second officer represents Hiram King of Tyre, seated on the left of Solomon, clothed in a purple robe, over which he wears a yellow mantle, together with the order and jewel; a crown is upon his head and a sword in his hand.
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The third officer represents Jabulum or ~~abulOna~ the Grand Treasurer, seated in the North, clothed in a blue robe, and wearing round his neck a white ribbon from which is suspended a Golden Key; on the ribbon is painted the initials 3. :.V. ~I. .0. ~.L.’.meaning 1’nveni Verbum in ore leonts.
The fourth officer represents Joabert, seated in the South, and is styled Grand Secretary; is clothed in blue. The fifth officer represents Stolkin, seated in the West, and is styled Grand Inspector. He is clothed in a blue robe, wearing the order and jcwel, with a sword ii his hand. Not less than three can be initiated at one time. All the other brethren are clothed in black robes and caps, with the apron, order and jewel of the degree. APRON :—Purple silk, bordered with white, on it a triangle. SASH :—A broad purple ribbon, worn from the right shoulder to the left hip, (in some lodges instead of the sash a collar of the same color is worn) to which is suspended the jewel. JEWEL :—A Golden Triangle, on one side of which is engraved the Delta of Enoch with rays; on the other the trap-door of a vault. Not. 1IS.—”Zahelon. The Greek form of Zehulun. the teuth s~,b ..f Jacob. Delannay (ThuInane. p. 79) says that some rituallats suppose that it is the true form of the word of which abnlnm is a corruption. This is incorrect. Jahulum Is a corrupt form of Giblim. Saholon has no con. nection with the high degrees. azcept that in the Royal Arch ha represent, one of the stones in the Pectoral. —Maoka~’s Ene~e1easi1a of Vise. masonry, Aetisi. Zabulo..
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OPENING CEREMONIES ROYAL ARC H’’ DEGREE.
Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, what place e.re
we in? Inspector—Thrice Puissant, we are in the most sacred place in the earth. Thrice Puissant—How came you in this sacred place? Inspector—By an effect of providence. Thrice Puissant—Explain this to me. Inspector—I dug in the ancient ruins of Enoch.155
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Note 112.—”The history of the degree has been a subject of much die. pute. but all agree that it is the birth of the 18th century. The best subetautiated theory is tbat to~ the learning and talent of Chevalier Ramsey, tutor to James the Second. the germ of the degree is due. and that its origin must he set at about the year A. D. 1740. The peculiar form of the degree differs~greatiy in different countries, we hove the sutberity of tbe masonic traveler. K. 0 Cooke, that the English Royal Arch system has no other resemblance to the American form th~zi the one word which conatitutes the mystic key to the whole; that in bbstor~. purposes, order of succession, terms, paraphernalia and obligations the two are radically different In all countries it is esteemed as the oem. piement of the Master Masons degree.—Morrbs Masonlo Dictionary. Article Royal Arch Mason. Note 114.—”Enocb. The degeneracy Of uankind became so great before the flood, end their perveralons cE pert antediluvian Masonry an grievous, that. s~cording to our tradlth,ns. gijoch feared the geaulne secrets would be lost and awaliosued • in the predicted deluge. To prevent which he hid ibe grand secret. engraven on a uhite oriental porphyry stone. in the bowels oS the earth; end being apprehcnaiee that the morality end science wbich had been embodied in Freemasonry with inch care would be absorbed in the gensfal destruction, to preserve the principles of the science. he huilt two puller. near the spot where they were concealed, with an inscription in hieroglyphics. importing that nenr it was a precious treasure, which had been dedicntcd to Ond “—Maccys Zaoyelopeedla sad Distisnazy of Vreemae~av, Article Enoch.
Thrice Puissant—Who are you. Inspector—I am what I am, my name is—. Thrice Puissant—Do you know the true pronunciation of the name of the Great Architect of the Universe? Inspector—It is a sacred name only known by the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons. Thrice Puissant—What is your quality? Inspector—A Knight of the Royal Arch. Thrice Puissant—how were you received in this de-
gree? Inspector—Solomon in company of hiram King of Tyre, to recompense my zeal and constancy, created me into this degree, ~ith Joahert and Stolkin my companions. Thrice Puissant—Have you anything else to desire? Inspector—Yes, the Sublime Masonry known by the name of Perfection. Thrice Puissant—God may perhaps permit one day that your wishes may be accomplished, and recompense you according to your deserts. Thrice Puissant—(Strikes five; 00 000. All rise and
form a circle round the Ark.) Thrice Puissant—Let us pray. PUAYER.
Great Architect of the Universe, adorable God in all, be so kiuid and exact our desires in this moment when we beg thy divine goodness. In thyself is the true wisdom to which we aspire, and by the strength of thy
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favor we may hope for thy wisdom which shall make the beauty we dare to consecrate to them: That is to
say, its beauty may purify our hearts in which we desire continually that you may reside. Amen. Thrice Pui4ant—(Strike~ ive; 00 000 with his hands.) Hiram King of Tyre—( Strikes five; 00 000; with his hands.) Inspector—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.) Treasurer—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.) Secretary—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.) Solomon and Hiram now kneel down at the Delta or Ark, with the sign of admiration, after a little while they help each other and rise; and all the brethren kneel and make sign of admiration. Thrice Puissant—(Strikes one; 0. All help and raise each other.) Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, give notice that this Royal College is open. Inspector—Brethren you will please take notice tJiaL this Royal College is open. Thrice Puissant—(Strikes one; 0. All ~etire to their places.)
CHAPTER XXII THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGR3U.aaa INITIATION.
Master of Ceremonies prepares the candidates in the ante-room as Grand Master Architects. Master of C~emonies—(Knocks five; 00 000.) Inspector—Most Thrice Puissant, there is an alarm at the door. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, ascertain the cause uf that alarm.
Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks two and three, then opens the door.) Who knocks at the door of our college to interrupt our deliberations? Master of Ceremonies—These three whose names are Toub, Bahani, Hamelabel; Light, Labor and Affection, aspire to recover the true name of God, which has remained buried for ages under the ruins caused by superstition and despotism. Expert—Are they willing to descend into the bowels of the earth to seek for the treasure? Master of Ceremonies—They are. Note 115.—’Rclal Arab of hasay. The system of Royal Arch Masonry invented early in the last century by the Chevalier Ramsey. it Was the first fahrlcatlon of the Royal Arch degree in an independent form, and, although rejected by the English bisanna. ha heen adopted as the heals of the system in many of the continental Rites. The thirteenth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rita is ioobahiy p very fair representation of it, at least substantially. it ezeroisect some Influence also upon Dermoit and Duockerley In their oompn~Ition ef their Royal Arch a/stems. —Machays Ineyclogeedia of Jrsamaseesy, Artisle inqaL Arab a £sma~s
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Expert—(Shuts the door.) Thrice Puissant, there are in the ante-room three brethren who aspire to recover the true name of God, which has remained buried for ages under the ruins caused by superstition and despotism. Thrice Puissant—What are their names? Expert—Toub, Bahani and Hamelabel; Light, Labor ~nd Affection. Thrice Puissant—Are they willing to descend into the bowels of the earth to scek for the treasure? Expert—They are, Thrice Puissant. Thrice Puissant—Let them be admitted. Expet—(O pens the door.) Let them•be admitted. Mastcr of Cerernonies—(Enters with the candidates md conducts them to the Altar.) Thrice Puissant, I ~‘iavethe pleasure of introducing to you three, brethren, whose names are, Toub, Bahani, Ilanielabel; Light Labor and Affcetion, who aspire to recover the true name of God, 3vhicli has remained buried for ages under the ruins caused by superstition and despotism. Thrice Puissant—How can thcy hope to find it, brother Inspector? Inspector—With ~eetion for their motives, thought for their guide and labor as their means, they hope to rcmove the ruins and penetrate the depths which conceal the treasure they covet. Thrice Puissant—Brethreu, you are at liberty to perform the ~ork you propose, and may the Great Architect of the Universe crown your efforts with success. Brother Expert, lead the candidates to the place of neareh. (Expert leads the candidates to the East in front of the Ark of Alliance.)
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Thrice Puissant—My brethren, Enoeh” before the
flood, desiring to preserve the knowledge of thc name of God for future ages, and hoping that one day the descendants of Noah might be able and worthy of learning it, built a sacred vault in the bowels of the earth, closed the entrance with a key-stone and marked the spot by means of two pillars, Strength and Beauty. On the pillar of Beauty, he inscribed the methods ofArt, and on the pillar of Strength, he inscribed the rules of moral action. In the vault below, lie had placed the Cubic Stone of Wisdom, by which a knowledge of the name of the Great Architect of the Universe niight be obtained. Heretofore, my brcthren, you have not been able to open the sacred vault which is symbolized by the Holy Ark before you. If your intentions are good, your mind clear and your hands diligent, God will permit you to remove thc key-stone and penetrate the depths. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you u~ill now cause one of the candidates to remove thc lid of the Ark, and lift the first of the Arches. (Which is done.) Expert—Principiurn. Thrice Puissant—God is tne principle, the owner of all things, the great supreme cause and Universal Father. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expcrt, you will now cause
ne of the candidates to lift the second of the Arches. (Which is done.) Note l16.—”Enoch. (Sootch Kasonryl—The name of thi, patrIarch is liatriatuied in Scotch Idosonry In the decree of Knights of the Ninth 07 Royal Arch. lie was born A Ii. 622. and was translated witbout seeing death. A. it i)87 lie is fahied to have built a ,.nhtprranean temple upon the npot afterwards known as hit lturiiih. This he dedicated to Ged. Therein tic dip. aited the Se. rein of incituile ~t.,su.,ry. ehich remolned unitiscorered ut Ii the days if Sulomon lie is,, ia lit t~ o great nitiara. respeutively of brass end marble and upon theni indicatod by hieroglyphics the fact that the smered treasures lay beneath —Mnrraa~a Masonic Die-
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Expert—Ezistena. Thrice Puissant—-God is life; in him we live and have our being. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the third of the Arches. (Which is done.) Expert—P ens. Thrice Puissant—God is power, all. things are subject to his unlimited dominion and irresistible strength. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the fourth of the Arche.. (Which is done.) Experi—Eternalis. Thrice Puissant—God is eternal, without beginning and without end, unto him the past, the present and the future are one. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the fifth of the Arches. (Which is done.) Experi—Infinitum. Thrice Puissant—God is infinite, he dwelleth in all, with all, and beyond all. He is the centre which hath no circumference. He is the light which shines in every direction, without measure or limit. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the sixth of the Arches. (Which is done.) Expert—Solus. Thrice Puissant—God is one. Than him there is no other. His design and will are single and immutable. Thrice Puissant-Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the seventh of the Arches. (Which is done.) Expert-Misericora.
Thrice Puissant—God is love, his unbounded and inexhaustable mercy is our trust and our hope, and giveth joy throv.ghout the Universe. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the eighth of the Arches. (Which is done.) Expert—Sapientiez. Thrice Puissant—God is wisdom, he knoweth all things, past, present and future, and there is no mystery unknown to him, fo~ his understanding is the arch of nature. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now cause one of the candidates to lift the ninth of the arches. (Which is done.) Expert—Justus. Thrice Puissant—God is justice, his mercy and truth giveth the weight on onq side, and on the other, his judgments are perfect. Expert—(Raises his hands in admiration, bends the knee to the ground and exclaims,) Jehovah. Thrice Puissant—My brethren, when of old, the chosen three had traveled the nine arches, tthey to the caine resplenadant Dome andon beheld Delta, whichupon the the true Cube nameStone” of the Great Architect of the Universe was impressed in letters of dazzling
light, they fell on their knees, made the signs of admiration and. exclaimed, Jehovah, as you have done. But they were not able to pronounce the ineffable name. Nevertheless they hastened to inform Solomon and Hiram King of Tyre of their wonderful discovery, and the
two kings caused the Cube Stone and Delta to be placed in a sacred vault of nine Arches similar to the ancient one. This sacred vault was beneath the temple immediately under the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of Alliance was preserved. Note 1SY.—”Ouhiosl Utous. This symbol is called by the Vueaeh Masons p1mm euhisue and by the German ouhik stein. It is the Perfect Ashier of the Unglish and American systems. See Ashlaw. le,feet.’— Mashers ~qeIopeedia of lreemasoury. Artiels Ouhital Eteas.
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And to reward the three discoverers of.the lost word, he appointed them the guardians of the inestiniable treasure. Are you willing to accept the office? Expert—We are. Thrice Puissant—Brethren, the Great Architect of the Universe hith done you the greate-t of favors, it is him who hath chosen you to discover the most precious treasure of masons, and you are his elected. T give you joy of it. Brother Expert you will now eonduet the candidates to the Altar, there to contract the most solemn obligation, and I will reward them for their labor.
power in me vested as Thrice Puissant Grand Matder of this Royal Lodge, I do hereby proclaim you Knights ‘of the Royal Arch, and faithful guardians of the Sacred Treasure. Arise Sir Knights, [greet you. Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now conduct the candidates to our brother Inspector in the West. who will invest them with the secrets of ibis degree, as a reward for their labors. Expert conducts them to the Inspector who gives them the sign.
OBLIGATiON, ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.
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I——do promise before the Great ArchiteeL of the Universe and this Puissant Royal Assembly, never to reveal the secrets which are to be entrusted to me, especially what is to be revealed to me of the sacred mysteries. I promise to renew my zeal for masonry, and my friendship for my brethren, and never to separate myself from this Ro•~al Lodge but by leave from the Most Powerful Grand Master, and of his Grand Officers. ] promise never to reveal or consent that a mason shall be received into this degree, but according to our laws. I further promise to ~observe at all times, the Statutes and Regulations which shall be prescribed to me by this Royal L~dge and to acknowledge at all times the Council of Prinees of Jerusaleni and of the Royal Secretary for the Sovereign Chief of the Royal Art, it furnished with authentic title, and submit myself to their decrees, to sign my submission to the most authentic act of it. And if I fail in this, my present engagement, I con. sent to suffer all the pains of all my former obligations, my body to be exposed as food to the ferocity of the wild beasts. Go God help me in righteousness and equity. Thrice Puissant—By virtue of the authority and
to heaven, the head leaning on the left shoulder, fall on the right ‘knee. Second—AdoTation, fall on both knees. First Sign. Royal Arch.
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Place your hands beneath the other’s arms, as if to help him to rise, saying at the same time, Be of Good Cheer. The other returns the token, saying Jabulum. Token.
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BATTERY :—Five strokes, by two and three; 00 000. SACRED WORD :—Jehovah. HOURS OP LABOR :—From evening until morning.
characters and a flaming light around it, which he had seen before. Enoch being full of the spirit of the most high God, built a temple under ground and dedicated it to God, accompanied with nine arches, one above the other, in the same form as that he had seen in his dream. Methuselahise the son of Enoch, constructed the building without being acquainted with his father’s motives. This happened in that part of the world which was afterwards called the land of Canaan, and since known by the name of the Holy Land. Enoch”’ caused a triangular plate of gold to be made, each side of which was a cubit long. He enriched it with the most precious stones and encrusted the plate upon a stone of agate of the
Inspector—Brother Expert, you will now conduct the brethren to the East, to listen to the discourse by tho Grand Orator. DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.
My brethren, it is my intention at this time to give you a cl.earer account than you have yet been acquainted with of masonry, of which at present you barely know the elements. In doing this, it will be necessary to explain to you some circumstances of very reronte antiquity. Enoch,’” son of Jared, was the sixth son in descent from Adam and lived in the fear and love of his God. God appeared unto him in a dream and spoke to him by inspiration and communicated to him as follows: As thou art desirous of knowing my name, follow me and I will acquaint and teach thee. After this a mountain seemed to rise to the heavens, and Enoch”’ was carried there, when God showed him a golden triangular plate, enlightened brilliantly ~nd his ever blessed name engraved thereon in Hebrew characters. He gave strict orders never to pro~nounee it. After that Enoch seemed to be carried under ground perpendicularly through nine arches, and in the ninth arch he ~aw the tame brilliant plate with the same Note 11S,—”Znoch. Though the Scriptures furnish hut a meagre secount nf Enoch. the traditions of Freemas.,nry closely him. by theconnect institution. itumerous circumaiauc’ea. with the cans historj of Mackay’s Encyclopaedia of rreemasonq, Artic a Eacek.
Note 1l9.—”’The circumstances which ocurred at that time are recorded ~n a tndition which forms uhot hus icli culled the great Masonic ‘Legend of 5noch.’ and nhirh runs to this effect Hooch, being inspired hy the licat High. e,i,i in cowmemoratiou of a wonderful yision. heilt a ten,i~ie under ground end dedicated it c God. —Machey’s Encyclopaedia ct r-eamaaanry, Article Eanch.
same form. He then engraved upon it the ineffable characters and placed it on a triangular pedestal of
white and black marble, which he deposited in the deepest arch. When Enoch’s temple was completed, he made a door of stone and put a ring of iron therein by which it might be occasionally raised, and placed it over the opening of the arch, that the matters enclosed therein might be preserved from the universal destruction Note 110.—Wa son. Methuselah. constructed the building, although he was not acquainted with his fathers moUves Lot the erection. This temple consisted of nine brick Yanits, situated perpendicularly beneath each other and communicating by apcrtures left in the arch of each yagit.’ —Machey’s Enoyciopeadla of Yreemaeoary, Article Zuoch. Note 1*l,—”Enocb then caused a triangular plate of gold to be made. each aide of which was a cuhit long, he enriched it with the most precious stones and encrusted the plate upon a atone of agate of the mm. form. On the plate he engra,sd. in ineffabie characters, the true name of Deity, and, placing It on a cuhical pedestal of white marble, he deposited the whole within the deepest arch. when this aubterransan building was completed he made a door of stone, and, attaching to It a ring of Iron. by which it might be occasionally raised, he placed it over the opening of the uppermost arch, and so covered it over that the aperture could not be discovcreL Ruoch himself was not permitted to enter it but once a year.”—Mackey’s Znc~o1cpeedia etirsemaacnry. Article R~ooh.
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impending, and none but Enoch’” knew of the treasure which the arches contained. And behold the wickedness of mankind increased niore and became grievous in the sight of the Lord, and God threatened to destroy the whole world. Enoch”’ perceiving that the knowledge of the Arts was likely to be lost in the general dcstruetion, and being desirous of preserving the principles of the sciences for the posterity of those whom God should be pleased to spare, built two great pillars on the top of the highest mountain; the one of brass, to withstand water, the other of marble, to withstand fire, and he engraved on
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Note ifl.—”A uriter in the Freemason’s Quarterly Review soya, on this auhiect, that “ it aecuip pruhshie that Enuch introductd the speenle’ tive principles into the Masonic creed. and thai he orIginated its ixciusive character,” which theory moat be take.,, if it is accepted at all. nith very considerable modititationa. The )ears of his life may aiso be supposed to contain a mystic meaning.
for they amounted to thrt’e hundred and sixty’llve. being ex4ctiy equni to a aniar revoiution. in sli the ancient rites this unmht’r has occupied a prominent place, because it uss the represenlative of the annual course of ihat tuminiry uhi, h. as the great froetiller o~ ihe earth, was the peculiar object of divine norahip. “—Mackeys Encyolopsedia of Freemasonry, Artiole Enoch.
Note i23.—”Enoch hitoseif is but the symbol of initiatIon, and his iegend is intended sy,uboiicaiiy to express the dot trim’ that the irue Word or diviun ti nib it its ~ireserved in the antleut i,,itlatlo,ta. ‘‘—Mackeys Epoyciopaedia of Freemasonry. Article Enoch, Legend of, Note 134,—The legend goea~on io’~inform us that after Enoch had conipieted the subterraittun temple. tearing that the principics of those arts and ecininwes uhitli he bad coitivateil nith so much aaaiduity would be l’tst in ibtit general ditltruction of which he had re(elvt’d a prophetic vision, he erected tao pillars—the one of marble to withstand the influence of lire, and the other of brass, to resist the action of aster. On the pliiar of brass he engraved the history of the creation. ihe prineipiea of the arts and ci leuces. and the doctrines of Speculative e’reemaaonry as they acre pructited in his times: and on the one of marhie he inscribed characters In hlerogij phics. Importing that hear the spot where the~ stood a precious iretisure usa dt’poslted in a sobterranean fault. Josephus girt’s on account of these plilars in the itrat book of his Antiquities. lie aawll,es them to the children of Seth. ahith is hj no means a contradli tion of the Masonic tradition, since Enoth was olin of these children. ‘1’het lb Ir inventions.’ says .the historian. ‘might not be lust before they uui.rt’ aulilelently knoati. upon Adam’s prediclion that thi’ world ntis to he destroyed at one lime by the force of fire and hit another time hr the violeitte nod quantity of water, they made two pill irs—the one of hrick. the other of atone: they inscribed their discoteries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the piiiar of atone might remain and exhibit those discorci lea 10 mutiklnd. and also Inform them that there was another pills, of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Sirlad to this dat.” ‘—Maskey’s Encyclopaedia of rreamsaoary, Article Enoch.
under ground, which he had dedicated to God. And he engraved on the pillar of brass, the principles of the liberal arts, particularly of masonry. Methuselah was the rather of L*imech who was the father of Noah, who was a pious and good man, and beloved by God. And the Lord spake unto Noah, saying: “Behold, I will punish the sins of mankind with a general deluge. Therefore build an ark capable of containing thyself and family as also a pair of every living creature upon earth, and those only shall be saved from the general destruction which I sin about to inflict for the iniquities of the people.” And God gave unto Noah”’ a plan by which the Ark was to be constructed. Noah was one hundred years in building the Ark; he was six hundred years old when it was finished, and his son, Seth, was ninety-nine. His father, Lainech, had died a short time before, aged 7i l~ years. There was not at this time any of the ancient
patriarchs living save Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah, who was about 969 years old, and it is supposed that, he perished in the general ruin. The Ark being finished, Noah agreeable to the instructions he had received from the Most High, went into it with his family, and took with him such things as he was commanded. The flood took place in the year of Note hiI.—’iloah. in all the old Masonic manuscript Constitutions that are extant, Noah and the flood play an important part of the ‘Legenti of the Craft.’ Hence. sa the Masonic system heeaine developed, the Patriareb was looked upon as what was called a patron of Masonry. And this connection of Noah with the mythie history of the Order was reD’ dered still eloser by the Infijence of many symbols borrowed from the Aukite worship, one of the moat predominant of the ancient falibs. So latimately were incorporated the legends of Noah with the legends of Ussonry that Freemasons began, at length, to be culled, and are still jiled ‘Nosehidac,’ or the descendante of Noah, a term first applied by Anderson. and very frequently used at the present day. ‘—Mackey’s Znwelcpsedia of lreemasoniy, Article Noah.
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the world 1656, ~nd destroyed most of the superb mon~iznents of antiquity, The marble pillar of Enoch fell in the general destruction, but by divine permission the pillar of brass withstood the water1by which means the ancient state of the liberal art. and particularly Masonry has been handed down to us, We learn from Holy Writ the history of succeeding times till the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians, from which bondage they were freed under the conduct of Moses their leader to go and take the promised land. We also learn from the annals of those that were found in the archives of Scotland, that in a certain battle the Ark of Alliance was.lost. in a forest and the same was found again by the roaring of a Lion who cessed to roar and crouched on the approach of the Israelites. Said lion had a short time before devoured a great number of the Egyptians who had attempted to carry away the same. The lion keeping in his mouth the Key of the Ark, and on the approach of the High Priest he dropped the Key and retired at a distance, crouching and tame, not offering the least violence to ~,hechosen people. The same Divine ~historyparticularly informs us of the different movements of the Israelites until they became possessed of the land of promise and of the succeeding events until Divine providence was pleased to gave the sceptre to David, who though fully determined to build a temple to the Most High, could never begin; that honor being reserved for his son. The Bible also instructs us that Moses was well beloved of God and that he spoke to him on Mount Sinai in a burning bush and communicated to him his Divine Laws, and many promises renewing an alliance with
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him and then gave him the true pronunciation of his Holy name by which he woul~d always be invoked. It was at this time that Moses replied, “Who Mi Thou?” .“Godsaid ‘Wk4 fl’fl~4 ~I’flt4is mytrue name, I sin a strong and zealous God.” Solomon being the wisest of princes had fully in remembrance the promises of God to Mose5, that some of his successors ml fullness of time should discover his holy name, and his wisdom inspired him to believe that this could not be accomplished until he hqd erected to the living God a temple in which he might deposit the precious treasure. Accordingly Solomon began to build in the fourth year of his reign, agreeable to the p1st ~ven him by David, his father, upon the Ark of alliance, He chose a spot for this purpose, the most beautiful and healthy in all Jerusalem. On digging for the foundation of Solomon’s temple, they found an ancient ruin of a very large edifice and a quantity of riches, such as Vases, Gold and Silver Urns, Marble Porphyry, Jasper and Agate Columns, with a number of precious stones which were all carried to Solomon. This virtuous King presuming that on that spot before the deluge perhaps, a temple had been erected and fearing it had been dedicated to the service of some false God, and fearing lest the true name of Deity might be profaned in that place, he would not build there, after which they were unable to find any more precious treasure. The temple of Solomop was built am we are instructed by masonry and as we know by the melancholy death of Hiram Abiff. Solomon in building, caused to be erected under ground a cavern of nine arches, and which he named the Secret Vault. In this sacred vault he caused to be deposited a triangular pedestial of white and black marble with the ineffable name of Deity encrusted thereon, on a triangular plate the ssme as was deposited by Enoch.
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This Solomon called by inspiration the pillar of beauty, for reason of the beautiful arch which t supported, and the sacred treasure which pros idciice had debigned to be encrusted thereon. To arrive at tlong the Sacred were arches obligedfolto narrow Vault, piesage)ou of nine pass through a lowing one another by a eomiiimiieation under ground from the palace of Solomon. To this place Solomon used to go in company of Hiram King of Tyre snd Hiraiti Abiff privately, to enter on holy matters. The loss of Hiram Abiff deprived the two Kings of this satisfaction as the number of tx~o ~tas insulficieiit to enter there and as three were absolutely necessary. they were at a lobs who they should choose to supply the place of Hiram Abiff. Some Master Intendants, Sublime Elected Knights and Grand Niaster Architects wcre informed of the presence of the King of Tyre at Jerusalem, and they were not ignorant of the fact that when Hiram Abiff was alive that Solomon had a particular place under ground called the Secret Vault’” only Nets 126.—vault, Secret, As a symbol, the Secret vault does not present itaeif in the primary degrees or hissour) It is found oni, in the high degreca, sach sa the Royal Arch of all the Rites, where it playa an important pan. Dr Oliver, in his Nistonoal Landmarks. (vol ii.. p. 434.1 gives. whiie referring to the building or the second Tempte. the following general detail of the Masonic legend of this vault ‘The foundations of the ‘i’emiile were opened, and cleared from the acLumulation or rubbish, that a level might he procured fur the rummeacement or the hoiidinh While engaged iu eacavatiout for this par. poae. three fortunate sojourners are said to have discovered our ancient stone of fonudation. nhicb had been deposited in the secret cr1 p1 by Wisdom, strength and Besot?, to prevent the communication or ineffable secrets to profane or unworthy persons. The discovery having bee,, mmniunicated to the i,rince. prophet and priest or the Jews the stone vii. adopted as the chief corner-stone of the reeditied building, and thus became. In a new slid more expressive sense, the type of a more excellent dispensation. An avenue was also accidentally discovered. supported by seven pair of ililara. perfect and eutire. vihich. from their situation, had esesped the fury of the finmea that bad consumed the TI-nt. pie. sad the desolation of war that had destroyed the elty. The Se, ret vault ~bich bid been built by Solomon as a seenre depository for rertam secrets thot would inevitably have been lost without some an, h expedient for their preservation, communicated by a subterranean avenue with the kings palace; but at the destruction of Jerusalem the entrance having been closed by the rubbish of falling buildings, it bad been discovered by the appearance of a keystone amongst the foundations of the sanctum sauctorum. A careful Inspection was then made. and the invaluable secrets were placcd in safe custody. ‘—Maeksya Eacyolopsadla of rre.maao~r7, Articl,
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INITIATIOK. ,T6 known to the two Kings and the deceased. These brethren went to the two Kings and entreated tllem to introduce them into that secret place. When the two
Kings were renewing their alliance, Solomon answerea
them with arms extended and head inclining, in this way: “You cannot expect it, God will admit you one day to the knowledge of wllat yOU now desire.” Some days after Solomon sent for three Masters named Joabert, Stolkin and Guiblim arid gave them orders to search once more in the ancient ruins where
they had already found many treasures, in hopcs of finding more. They departed to fulfill the King’s orders and after arriving at the designatgd spot, Guiblim in working with a pick-axe, met with a large iron ring. He at once hailed his companions and they concluded something of ex-
traordinary value must have been deposited there. The three brethren then labored with great ardour and zeal with shovel and crow and cleared away the earth that covered the ring, when they found it was fixed to a perfeet square stone, which ‘vith great labor and pains they raised and found it covered a most dismal great cell. Guiblim proposed to descend, and for that purpose
they fixed a rope around his body and let him down, with the understanding that if he wished to be raised, he should make it manifest by shaking the rope. Guiblim
accordingly descended and found himself in an arched vault, in the pavement of which lie found another opening. He descended into that, and there also he found another opening through which he went, which brought him into a third vault and made the like observation of a fourth opening but was afraid to pursue his search; he therefore shook the rope and ascended, He acquaInted his companions with the observations
he had made and proposed they should descend in turns
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to make further observations, but they positively refused.
and both exclaimed, Hamaluhick Guiblim, that is co may: Guiblim is a good man, we must keep and recompense him. They then examined the gold plate on which they perceived some characters which they did not understand. Said plate was encrusted on the top of an agate stone of the same form. They admired the plate with respect and conceived that the characters meant the Sacred name of God, which name was only known to Solomon, Hiram King of Tyre and Hiram Abuff. It seemed to them that after the death of Hiram Abiff the two Kings not being a sufficient number could never bestow this degree upon those who aspired thereto, bul they hoped to receive it by the circumstances of theli finding the precious treasure. They concluded to raise the Cube Stone on which this golden plate was fixed and carry it to Solomon. It was at break of day when they wived. The King of Tyre being with Solomon in his apartment, who on beholding the precious treasure were struck with such admiration that they both mutually made the sign of admiration and fell on their knees. Solomon first recovering from hip surprise and seeing King Hiram still on his knees and not yet recovered, Solomon raised him and said Hamaluhick Guiblim. The two Kings examined the characters of the gold plate and found it to be the ineffable name of God, but could not explain any part thereof to the three elected. Solomon told them that the Great Architect of the Uni?erse had bestowed on them the most signal favor, and had chosen them to discover the most precious and rare treasure of masonry. You are his Elected and I wish
Guiblim acc-ordingly descended on the following condi-
tions: that through every arch he would shake the rope slightly, and if he wished to ascend he would shake the rope violently. When he arrived in the sixth arch he shook the rope
and was hauled up again. He told Joabert and Stolkin that he had been in six arches and had observed an opening to descend further, and proposed for one of them to descend as he had worked hard and was afraid to venture. This however frightened Joabert and Stolkin so much that they absolutely refused to go down. This raised the zeal of Guiblim, and with a lighted 11ambeau he descended on the former conditions. When he was entering the ninth arch a parcel of the stone and
mortar fell suddenly down from the top and his flambean went out when he perceived the rays of the sun penetrating lively, briskly and directly on a golden triangular plate adorned richly round with precious stones, the brightness of which so affected Guiblim, it almost deprived of sight. He immediately made the sign of admiration which was the same as Solomon and Hiram
King of Tyre had made&when they desired to be admitted in the Sacred Y~ult and Sublime Degree. Guiblim fell prostrate on his knees, his right hand
before his eyes, his left behind his back. Shaking the rope three times, on which Joabert and Stolkin drew him up ani~ he recounted to them the amazing things ho had seen in the ninth arch. By this account to them they proposed to descend together by a rope ladder made for that purpose. The three accordingly descended, in the ninth arch and being amazed as was Guiblirn, they
you joy! In recompense for their zeal, fervor and constancy he created them Knights of the Royal Arch, as
also fell prostrate thereat, and after having got the better of their surprise they went and raised Guiblim
they were the only ones that discovered the same and by which discovery the arch was called the Royal Arch.
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He also promised to give them an interpretation of the sacred and mysterious characters which they saw on the Golden Triangular Plate. The three elected observed to Solomon that the first word he and thee King of Tyre spoke to them was the same they had mutually pronounced in the Ninth~Areh on seeing the treasure. They also recounted to the two Kings everything they had done and seen, by whieh~they had precisely found the Sign, Token and Word of this degree, known by the title of Knights of the Royal Arch. Solomon then explained to them that the promise of God was accomplished of his promise to Noah, Moses and David his father, that one d.ay the true name of ~iini by which he was to be invoked should be diseovQred on a golden plate, but should be forbidden to write it aiid jiave permission only to letter it for their consolation, but never to pronounce or speak it, and to be very eireum~peet in lettering it. You know the Master’s Word was lost at the construction of the temple by the tragic scene of Hiram Abiff, our Grand Master Architect; aiid now my dear brethren we are happy to hav~ at this present moment the true characters which we intend soon to give you the interprelation and pronunciation of. We have now nothing to do hut to recompense you with justice, to the merit due your work. You are now stamped by the divine hand and certainly merit this signal favor. The two Kings and three Knights took the precious treasure and carried it to the Sacred Vault by the private way through nine arches, of which none had any knowledge but themselves. They arrived at the pillar of Beauty, and thereat, worked together to enerust the
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plate on the pedestal. The two Kings seemed gloriously vejoiced in work with the trowel on that thing which God had destined should be done by their hands only. After they had finished their work, the whole five trated themselves to adore the Great Architect of Lroa eUniverse, giving him homage, thanks and praise for his favorable decree in their favor. The brilliancy of the plate, the splendor of the rubies and diamonds, placed one on the other, was sufficiently light for the place without the aid of artificial light. After their work was done the two Kings changed the name from Secret to Sacred Vault, known only by the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons. It was now time to recompense the three Masters and Knights of Royal Arch, Guiblim, Joabert and Stolkin. The two Kings accordingly gave them the degree of Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, explaining the Sacred Word engraved on the golden plate, which was the true name of the most Sacred Omnipotent, and told them it was the name by which he would be invoked. A pronunciation which has suffered much and hath been greatly corrupted. It is very certain that from the different varieties of this word, the Moors have taken their Jubar, and the Latins their Jupiter, as the true pronunciation was not a little lost of the greatest of
names. Moses having been taught by the Great Architect himself, relative to the efficacy of this great name provi. ded in Egypt agajnst Drought, Hunger and Sickness. The new elected brethren, Guiblim, Josbert and Stolkin, took their obligations before God and the two Kings, never to pronounce that word fully and never to permit any mason to receive this Sublime Degree before ~ had given long proof of his zeal and attachment for
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the craft and also to use the same ceremony to comxaum-
was obliged to give the pass-word SkibboletA” three times with an aspiration. There were besides the above number 3,568 Masters
cate this mysterious history of the Divine Delta, near
the Burning Bush where God made the ancient fathers promise the same. The number ~ofthe Grand and Sublime Elected waa at first three, then five, and continued so until the temple was completed and dedicated, when King Solomon as e reward for their faithful services, admitted to this degree the twelve Grand Masters, who had faithfully presided over the twelve tribes, also one other Grand Master Architect. Nine Ancient Grand Masters, eminent for their virtue, were chosen Knights of the Royal Arch, and shortly after were admitted to the Sublime Degree of Perfection. The nine Knights to be admitted to the Sacred Vault
were obliged to tyle the doors of the nine arches which led from Solomon’s Palace to said Vault. The most ancient was placed at the door near the Sacred Vault, and the others by degrees to the ninth door near Solomon’s Palace or apartment, never permitting an entrance to any except the Grand Elect, Perfect end Sublime Masons, giving the Signs, Tokens and
Words of each ArclL I will now give you the pass-word for each arch. The pass for the first arch is Jub, to the second Jeo, to the third Jua,”’ the fourth Hayak, the fifth Gotha, the sixth Adonai, the seventh Jacl&anai, the eighth Ilciencharn, the ninth Jachabuium. Those are the passes for each arch. The brother who gave the sacred word on the inside Note 137,—7uL
A corrupted form of the Tetragrammaton, and a
Significant word in the high degrees. —Maeh.~’s Eno7.1e~aadla at Free. maso~. Artieie Ins.
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who had served at the construction of the temple, and becoming jealous on seeing a preference given to the above 25 ~?ifasterswhich chagrined them much as they had frequently seen the King’s apartment shut against~
them, consequently they sent deputies to Solomon to ascertain the cause of that preference. Solomon after hearing the complaint of the deputy, replied as follows: Those 25 Masters have deserved this preference by their zeal in working the hardest and have always shown invaluable constancy, consequently I have loved and cherished them. Your time has not yet come. Go, God will permit you one day to be recompensed as you deserve. One of the deputies being of a passionate disposition and dissatiafied with the reply of Solomon, answered:
We also have claims for a higher degree. We know how the word was changed and can travel into foreign countries and receive master’s wages as such. Solomon being struck with this reply, but at all times full of wisdom and goodness did not rebuke, but thus addressed him: Those Ancient Masters deserve the degree of Perfection, as they have been in the ancient ruins and penetrated into the bowels of the Earth and took from Note 133.—”l.t, an ear of corn; and 2ndi~, a stream of water. As the Ephraimitea were desirous of crossing the rtyer. it is probable that this second meaning suggested it to the Olleaditee as an appropriate test word on the occasion. The proper sound of the first letter of this word I. ab, a harsh breathtng which I. ezceedingl~ difficult to he pro. asunced b7 persons whose ,oeai organs haye not been accustomed to it. bch was the case with the fiphealmites, who snhstitnted for the aspire. Uon the hissing sound of a. Thei, organs of roice were incapabia of e aspiration, and therefore, as the record has it, they ‘could not frame to pronounce it right. • The lesrned Durder remsrks (Orient. Gnat, II 133.) that in Arabia the diference of pronunciation among p~raona oi Yarions districts is much greater than in moat other places. and inch as easlif accounts for the circumstance mentioned in the peesage of Judges. —Maebe~a Raqotoaedia St rreemaaesz~, Aitlele saibbelath.
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them an immense treasure to embellish God’s temple. Go in peace and do as they have done. Work to adorn the temple of the mighty God, and he will recompense you as you deserve. Those masters being proud and !ain, and much ~frightened at the reply of Solomon, returned and made a report of their embassy, and not having been reprimanded, ambition also mixed with jealousy, agreed to go together to the ancient ruins. They discovered the ring to lift the trap and with a ladder of ropes entered the arches with lighted flambeaus. God desirous-of punishing those masters for their vain and proud ambition and to give a clear proof of his justice and providence, pronounced their doom for their insolence, insomuch that when the last of them entered the arches fell in upon them successively one after the other, with all their appertenants, in consequence of which the ancient word,13’ which had been corrupted, was entirely lost with them and known only to those we have spoken of before. After Solomon had heard what befell those masters, he sent Guiblim, Joabe~t and Stolkin to inquire the circumstances. They accordingly Aeparted at break of day, and having Note 129.—’The WORD, therefore. I conceive to be the symbol of Divine Trutb~ sod ail Its modifications—the loss, the substitution, and the recovery—are but component parts of the mythical symbol wbich rep. resents a search after truth. In a general sense, the word ilseif beIng thcu the symbol of Divins Truth, the narrative of its loss and the search for its recovery becomes a mythical symbol of the decsy and loss of the line religion among the ancient nations, it and after Ihe dispersion on the plain of Shinur, and of the attempts of the wise men, the philosophers, and priests, to find and retain ii In their secret mysteries and initiations. ~ihich have hence been designated as the Spurins Freemasonry of Antiquity “lint there is a special or individual, as well as a general interprets. tion. and in this special or individual InterpretatIon the word with its accompanying myib of a lose, a substitute, and a recovery, becomes a symbol of the personal progress of a candidate from his first Initiation to the completion of his course, when he receives a full deveinpmnent of the mysteries. “—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Frsemasanry, Article Lost Word,
2.3 ajvived at the designated spot found such strange things theywere at a loss to account for the seine, but imagined that the presumptuous masters were enveloped in the ruins” which they saw had fallen in. Upon strict search they found a few pieces of marble on which were engraved some Hieroglyphics which they took possession of, carried to Solomon and reported ae. cordingly. Solomon put those pieces together and sent for some learned brethren who deciphered those characters, when he ascertained they were the ruins of the Temple of Enochisi which he had built and consecrated to the true God, which he had built before the flood and which was destroyed in the Deluge which swept away every thing but the nine arches under ground where was deposited the Delta or treasure so often spoken of to Moses and David by God, together with the brazen pillar from which the history of the Ancient Masters is taken. Brethren meditate upon the grandeur of our mysteries, INITIATION.
the ultimate knowledge of which you have not been
made acquainted, but by your zeal, fervor and constancy we hope one day to see you attain the degree of Perfection, which is the ultimatum of ancient masonry. Note l1S.—”The vault was, therefore, in the ancient myaterlee, sym. belle of the grave; for initiation was symbolic of desib: where alone Divine Truth is to be found. The Masons have adopted the same idea. They teach that death Is hut ihe beginning of life; that if the first or evanescent temple of our transitory life he on the surface. we must descend mb the secret vault of death hefore we can find that sacred deposit of truth which is to adorn our second temple of eternal life. It is in this sense of an entrance through the grave into eternal life that we are to view ths symbolism of the secret vanit. Uke every other myth and allegory of Masonry, the historical relation may he true or it may he false; it may be founded on fact or he the invention of imagination: Ihe iesson is stili there, and the s~mboliam teaches it czclusive of the history. “—Mackay’s Inoyelogaadia of Yreemaso.ry. Article vault, least Note l31.—”On the death of Enoch, Methuseish, and Lamech, and the destruction of the world by the dein e. all knowledge of this temple. and of the sacred treasure which it contaVued. was lost until. in after tim~. it was scridentaliy discovered by another worthy of Freemasonry, who. ilke Rnoch. was engaged in the erection of a temple on the acme spot.”— ~skeys rp.cyeiop.sdla at Freemasonry, Article Ranch.
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Solomon—By virtue of the power vested in me, I decorate you with the jewel of the order of this Royal”’ Degree. It is a representation of the Delta found by our Ancient Masters, which you are to wear from a purple ribbon round your neck. Its color expresses the love and friendship we ever ought to have for the order and our brethren in general. Brother Expert, you will now conduct the brethren to seats in the college. Rots 188.—it can never he too often repeated that the WORD Is. In Masonry, the symbol of TRUTH. This truth I. the great object of pillsuIt In Udmonry—the scope and tendency of all Its tovesttpatlons—ths promIsed reward of all MasonIc labor. Sought for dIlIgefitlY In every degree, and constantly approached hut never thoroughly and Intimately embraced, at length, In the Royal Arch the veils which concealed the object of search from our view are withdrawn, and the inestImable prIze Is revealed. ‘This truth, which Masonry makes the great object of Its inveatliations. I. not the mere tenth of science, or the truth of hIstory. but Is the more Important truth wb’ch Is synonymous wIth the knowledge of the nature of God.—that truth whIch is embraced In the sacred Tetragrammaton. or omnlfic name. Including in its sIgnIficatIon hIs eternal, present. past, and future existence, and to w~ich he hImself alluded when ha declared to hoses. I appeared unto Abraham. unto Isaac. and unto Jacob by the name of God AlmIghty; but by my ogme Jehovah was I not known unto them.’ “The dIscovery of thIs truth Is then, the essentIal symbolIsm of the Royal Arch degree. Wherever It Is practlced.—and under some peculIar name the degree Is found In every Rite of Maaonry.—this symbolism is preserved. However, the legend. may vary, however the ceremonies of receptIon and the prelImInary steps of InItIatIon may dIffer, the consum’ ~ 5~Ion Is always the same—-the great dIscovery whIch represents the attainment of 1’ruth.”—Kacksy5 lnoycloiiasdl& of Fesemasonry. Article 3q51 Arab ~tgree.
CLOSING CEREMONIES Duom. Selomon—Brother Inspector, what are you? ln.pector—I am that I am; I have seen the resplendent Delta bearing the Ineffable name, and the Cube Stone upon which it was placed by Enoch. Solomon—Did the Cube Stone bear any inscription? Inspector—Yes, J. .V. ‘.1. ‘.0. .L.’. one letter on each face of the Pedestal; Juveni Verbum in ore Leonia, which reads; I have found the word in the mouth of a Lion and that we will defend the name of the Grand Architect of the Universe with the courage of LAons. Solomon—Have you anything else to desire? Inspector—Yes, to read the Ineffable name according to its true pronunciation. Solomon—God will permit one day that your wishes may be accomplished. What is the clock? ROYAL’” ARCH
Note 188.—”Among the many precious thIngs whIch were carefully reserved In a ucred vault of KinK Soiomon’s Tem pIs was a portraIt of lbs monarch. paInted by Adonlram. the son of 3lkauah. priest of the second court. ThIs vault remaIned undIscovered tIll the tIme of Herod. although the secret of Its existence and a descrIptIon of its localIty were retaIned by the descendants of Rlkanab. ~ TIme sped on: the Itomans invaded Deltaln; sod, previous to the crucifixion, certaIn membere of the oid town guard of EdInburgh. among Whom were several of the Royal Order, proeeeded to Rome to enter into negofiationa with the soverci a. From thence they proceeded to Jerueslen’. a~.d Were present at the Ireadfoi scene of the crucifixion. They succeeded in obtaining the portraIt, and aim the blue veIl of the Tenipln rent upon the terrible occasion. I may dIsmIss these two venerable relIcs In a few words. Wilson, in hIs Memorials of Uiinbergh (2 you., publIshed by Hugh Patton). In a note to the Masonic Lodges, writes that thIs portrait was then In the possessIon of the brethtea of the Lodge St. Dsvld. This is an error, and arose from the fact of the Royal Order then meeting in the Lodge St. David’s mom in Rindfoa’d’a Close The blue veil was converted Into a standard for the trades of Udinburgh, and became celebcated on many a battle-field. notc.~ly in the Pleat Crusade as ‘The Blue Blanket. • 7mm the presence of certain of theIr number in Jerusalem on the occasion in question, the EdInburgh City Onard were often called Pontins Pilate’s Prgptorlans. Now, these are facts well known to many X.llnbnrxbers stIll eiive. ‘—Maokq’s Isoyde. lingua of Fraamaaoaiy. Article Royal Ordar of leotlsad.,
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Inspector—’Tis evening. Solomon—Since it is evening, acquaint the brethrm that I am going to close this respectable lodge by the most perfect and mysterious numbers. Inspector—Bicthren, you will please take notice that our Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to close this respectable lodge by the most perfect and mysteriour
numbers. Solomon—(Strikes five; 00 000.~ Grand Trea.surer—(Strikes five; 00 000.) Grand Secretary—(Strikes five; 00 000.) Grand Inspector—(Strikes five; 00 000.) To order, brethren.
All form a circle at the altar, kneel and make the sign of admiration; also another sign by placing the right hand on the back, after which they help one another to risc, the Kings first and then the other bt’ethren. All then make an obeisance to the Kings. Solomon—This Royal Lodge is closed with ail its honors.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. Fa~* History and False Rellgion—Aclwowiedged FabrIcation yet Sublime—”Infamoua Scheme for Lucre and Ambition”—Wriz. ing Latin Before it Existed.
This singular medley of false history and false rehg-
ion seems to have originated with Remeay in France as part of his “system of Masonry culled Scottial&,” which, says Rebold, p. 8~, “had a political object; no less than to make Masonry subservient to the Stuart party and an aid to the Catholic church, by restoring the pretender to the throne of England ;“ which, continues Rebold “served as a basis for all the Masonic systems in France and those exported to different countries on the globe.” Mackey. a better authority, also speaks of “Ramsay’e degree, (Royal Arch), from which all the continental systems originated.” And these writers tell us that Dermoit, who split the London Grand Lodge by secession, twenty-two years after it was formed at the Appletree tavern, and Dunicerly, the bastard son of George
II, both “fabricated” Royal Arch degrees, for the leading ideas of which they were indebted to Ramsay. The only interest we have in the origin of this de-
pee, which Dermott called the “root, heart and marrow of Masonry,” and of which Oliver said: “It is indeicribably more august, sublime and important than any
which preceded it,” is to show that it is a patchwork ~roduction of apostates and adventurers, distinguished or neither virtue, piety or patriotism. All the Masonic writers agree that it was “invented,” “falMcated” and
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think this were enough; a story, “legend,” invented about the discovery of the ineffable name of God It Similar treatment of Washington: a fiction got up and acted year after year, about his name and character, professedly fa4se and without foundation, would subject the inventors, if not to abhorrence, certainly to contempt. But here are men inventing, acting and selling
acknowledged fictions about God, and writers pronounce it “sublime I” Scholars know that the Jewish Rabbis, in the decline of religion, in reading the Scriptures, paused and passed over the name of Jehovah in silence, and then read on. This was while the Hebrew language was written without vowel points, so that when the Masorites came to
supply vowels the pronunciation of the name was forgotten and the vowel sounds of another name of God were affixed to the consonants of the word Jehovah, to supply the place of the sounds which had been lost by this Jewish superstition. The “word” never was lost, but the sounds only. The letters which these schemers pretended to have found at the bottom of an underground pit, nine arches deep~ on a triangular glittering gold plate, are taken f~om our Hebrew Bibles, just as they stood when th~ books were written, and as they still stand. And- outside the Hebrew, the Greek Zeus, the Latin Deus, the Saxon God, and even the Indian Manitou, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, can convey to the penitent soul correct ideas of God, though each word sounds differently from the other. Nothing necessary to salvation is lost; and if there was, Masonry has not found it. It has found nothing. The thing lost was a sound, and Masons do not claim to have discovered on that golden plate the sound of God’s name. The French Mason still says “Dieu,” and the Englishman, “God;”
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and the believing Pagan centurion i~ accepted who may. neither. Yet this infamous scheme for “lucre and mibition” has convinced thousands that their gold plate, like those of the Mormon, has revealed truth outside of and beyond the Bible. And the popularity and power of the falsehood, in both cases, depend on the multitudes who believe the lie and pay for it. The foot note 113
says: “The peculiar form of the degree differs greatly in different countries.” Indeed!! So we are not sure we have any Royal Arch degrees” after all I For the form of a degree is the fact of it. One gives us the Arch of
Enoch, another the Arch of Zerubabel, another of Josiah, in whose reign “The Book of the Law” was found in the rubbish of the Temple, where it was left when the temple was forsaken for the lodge-worships and whoredoms of Baal! But if half a dosen men give as many totally different and conflicting accounts of one
fact, we know that it is a lie and not the truth I Or, as Mackey himself calls it in foot note 115 “a fabrication of the Royal Arch Degree,” which, though “rejected by the English Masons,” is now the Thirteenth Degree of “TI&e Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” which now leads the Masonic world I (Read the Note.) And if further proof of imposture and imposition were wanting, it is at hand. This degree starts before tne flood, (see Note 118,) when Enoch’s Arches were built. Now when the candidate “removes the keystone and penetrates the depths,” he finds on the several arches, as he opens them. th.
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that far onward and above the steps he has already taken freemasonry is to develop itself on a still larger scale. The Sacred Vault”’ is the last place of rest in the mystic field of the first efforts of Freemasonry and proph~ esies its future~triumphs. The candidate looks for the last time at the mystic furniture of the Solomonian School, such as the Altar of Sacrifices, typifying material worship; the Altar of Perfumes, typifying intellectual
What an encouragement for a freemason to pursue hi. course and reach the last term of his painful and glo. rious career. The ceremonies in this degree are sublimely grand and imposing and are calculated to give us exalted
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religion; the Brazen Sea, typifying impenetrable infinity; the Loaves of Shew bread, typifying the mystic communion of mankind; the Golden Tray and Trowel,
typifying the fusion of all the races of men and the secret of their alliance, despite the many differences of customs and laws which divide the sons of the Almighty Father. On one side and in the past appears the formidable God of by-gone generations; his names are inscribed on the Breast Plate of the High Priests of the Jews. On the other side and far in the future, the Eternal, Good, Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Eouitable and ever consoling Father of mankind, whose titles are written with the blood of that Sublime Teacher, who first of all proclaimed the existence of a God of Love and Love only. late 1W.—’~ln the early ag~a. the cave or vault was deemed sacred. ‘me first worship was in cave temples, which were either n~turaI or formed by art to resenible the excavation, of nature. Of such great extent was this practice of subterranean worship by the nations of antiqulty. that many of the form. at heathen temples, as well as the nave., aisles, and chanceis at churches subsequently built for Christian worship, are said to owe their origin to the religious use of caves. from this. too, arose the tact, that the initiation into the incient mysteries was almost always pertormed In subterranean edifices; and when the place at initiation, as in so me of the Egyptian temples, was really above ground, it was so constructed as to give te the neophyte the appearance, in its approaches and its internal structure, of a vault. ha the great doctrine taught in the mysteries was the resurrection from the dead—az to dis and te ho Initiated were synonymous term,’.—it was deemed ~per that there should he some formal resemblance between a descent into thegrave and a descent Into the place ot initiatinn. ‘Happy ii the man,• says the Greek poet. Pindar. who descends beneath the hollow earth having beheld these mysteries, for he knows the end as well as the divine origin of llte: and In a like spirit 5o~lhocles exclaims, “Thrice happy are they who descend to the shades below after having beheld these sacred rites. for they alone have life In Hades. while all others suffer there every hind of evil. ‘—MaekaVa heyclopsa. ila of Nrsemasonly, Aitiela vault, bw.~
views of the Grandeur, Power and Majesty of God.
The lecture and history of this degree are rich to profusion with valuable and interesting matter relating to the symbolism and instruction contained in all the preceding degrees of Symbolic and Ineffable Masonry. DECORATiONS :—The lodge represents a subterranean vault painted red or hung with red hangings. In the West is a part of Enoch’s pillar, consisting of pieces found among the ancient ruins. In the East is the Pillar of Beauty, the Burning Bush and a Transparent Delta, with the Hebrew letters “Jod. :.He. :.Vau. :.He. :.“ inscribed therein.
The lodge is illuminated when at work by twentyfour (24) lights distributed as follows: nine in the East, three in the North, seven in the West, before the Senior Warden and five before the Junior Warden in the South. PTJRNITURE :—Consists of the Holy Bible, Square and Compass and Triangle, the Altar of Incense, the Altar of Sactiflce, table of Shew-Bread, Brazen Layer, Ark of the Covenant, Tables of the Law, Golden Candlestick, Two Brazen Columns, Golden Urn of oil, Golden Vase filled with water, Golden Goblet filled witll wine, Gold fling and Trowel, a Silver hod of ointment and the Cube Stone. Before each of the officers is a white triangular table. The assembly is styled a Grand Lodge of Perfection, and consists of but twenty-seven (27) members. It more are made they must become honorary members.
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TITLES :—There are ten (10) officers in a urand ~ of Perfection.
First—Thrice Puissant Grand Master, represent. King Solomon, stationed in the East. He is the first officer in the Lodge and presides over the work and confers all the degI~ees of the Ineffable series. His official Jewel a Crowned Compass with a Blazing Sun in the centre.
Second—Deputy Grand Master represents Hiram King of Tyre, seated on the right of Solomon in the East; Jewel a Crowned Compass with a Moon in the centre. Third—Senior Grand Warden, represents Adoniram
the son of Abda stationed in the West; Jewel a Golden Trowel. Fourth—Junior Grand Warden represents Moabonlsv stationed in the South; Jewel a Sword. Fifth—The Grandon Keeper 5 stationed the left of of the the Seals, Thrice represents Puissant;
Galaad,” Jewel an Ivory Key. Sixth—The Grand Treasurer represents Guiblim, stationed in the North before the table of Shew-bread; Jewel is a Golden Key. Seventh—The Grand Secretary represents Joabert,
statiosled in the South before the table of Perfumes; Jewel a Gold Pen. ~ Eighth—The Graud Orator, represents Abdamon’” Note 157.—”Moabcn.—Thta word is found In some of the high degrese accordIng to the French ritual, where It is explained as expressing the satisfactIon we feel in seeIng the crime ana the criminal punIshed.’ ‘mess is no snob word In Hebrew. sad the explanation Is a fanciful one. ‘me word I. undoubtedly a 0.11k corruptian. first In sound and then In Irtiera. at the Master’s word. “‘—Meokey’s Encyclopaedia of frasmasowy, Article Keabon. Note laS.—’‘Galahad. Also apelled Galaad.. Mast probably a corruptiou of Gilsad. Said In the old rItuals to have been the keeper at the Seals In the ~eottiah degree of KnIghts of the Ninth Arch or Sacred vault of James vi ‘—Mackay’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Galahad. Note l3fi.—”Abda,ncn, The name of the orstor in the 14th degree of the RIte of Perfection, or the Sacred vault ot James vi. it mesas a Servant, from ahad, ‘ta serve.’ sithough aomewhst corrupted In its trans. misaton into the rituals. LEaning 5575 it Is the Hebrew Nab4aana., ‘a servsnt;’ hut there Is noanch word In Hebrew.”’—Machsy’s r~eyele. ~aedia of Frssmsscnry. Article Abdamon.
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glationed in the South near the Altar of Sacrifices b.o tween the Junior Warden and Secretary; Jewel a Scroll. Ninth—The Grand Master of Ceremonies represents Stolkin, stationed in the North between the Treasurer and Captain of the Guard; Jewel a Staff. Re prepares mud conducts the candidate. Tenth—The Grand Captain of the Guards represents Zerbal, stationed in the l~orth between the Ilaster of Ceremonies and Senior Warden. Besides these the Thrice Puissant appoints a Ilotipitable Brother, stationed in the North between the Master of Ceremonies and Treasurer; Jewel a Winged Rod. He takes charge of the charity fund and visits vick brethren. Also a Grand Tyler stationed at the door of the entrance; Jewel is a Flaming Sword. ELECTION :—Takes place every year, on the third day of the month Adar. Besides this day lodges are required to observe the St. John’s day and to cekbrate on the fifth day of October, annually, the building of the first temple, also the fifth day of the month Ab, in commemoration of the dedication of that temple. CLOT RING :—AlI the officers are dressed as in the proceding degree, except they wear the apron, order and
jewel of this degree; the officers wearing their official jewels.
The collar worn by the officers is a broad white watered ribbon, with a white and red rosette at the bottom from which is suspended the official jewel. All wear swords.
The brethren wear black, loose gowns with hoods behind at back of neck, white gloves and purple and red turbans. APRON
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stone, within which is engraved an iron ring fastened thereto. GIRDLE :—Of a Perfect Mason, is made of varionq colored silk, arranged in the following combinafion: 3-57-9. ORDER :—A crimson collar, with white and red rosette at the bottom, from which is suspended the jewel. JEWEL :—A gold compass crowned and extcnded to ninety (900) degrees. Between the arms of the\compaes is a medal, on one side of which is engraved a sun, on the other a blazing star with the Delta in the centre; on the quadrant are engraved the figures 3-5-7-9. Each Knight wears a wedding ring, in the interior of which are engraved on one side the name of the Knight and the date of his reception and on the other these words: “Virtue unites what death cannot separate.” On the Table of Perfumes when an initiation, must be the Hod and Trowel, with oil to anoint and a pan with burning coals for incense, and on the table of Shewbread must be the cup with wine for libation, also a gold ring to present to the candidate, besides all the jewels necessary for the candidate.
OPENING CEREMONIES GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBuXE MASON. Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden, are
we tyled in this Sacred Vault? Benior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant Grand Mastsr, we are all tyled, and in security from cowans. Thrice Puissant—Since we are well tyled and in security from cowans, my most dearbrethren let us pray to the Great Architect of the Universe that he may enlighten and inspire us; let us pray with one knee on the ground. (All form a circle round the Altar and kneel on the left knee.) OPENING PRAYER.
Almighty and Sovereign Architect of Heaven and Earth who by thy divine power dost ultimately search the most secret recesses of thought, purify our hearts by the sacred fire of thy love, guide us by thy unerring hand in the path of virtue and cast out of thy adorable sanctuary all impiety and perverseness. We beseech thee that our thoughts may be engaged in the grand work of our perfection, which when attained will be an ample reward for our labor. Let peace and charity link us together in a pleasing union and may this lodge exhibit a faint resemblance of that happiness which the elect will enjoy in thy kingdom. Give us a spirit of holy discrimination by which we may be able to refuse the evil and choose the good, and also that we msy not be led astray by those who unworthily assume the character of the Grand Elect. May
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a sweet perfume ascend from the Altar of our hearts and be acceptable to three, 0 Jehovah, our Adonai. Finally be pleased to grant that all our proceedings may tend to our glory, and our advancement in right. eousness. Ble~s and prosper our works, 0 Lord.. Amen. (All rise and sing the following ode, at the Altar.) ODE. Ajr—”lndian Phllo..pker.’~ No Solar beam nor Lunar ray fllum~d lb. dark, the marrow way, That led me to the door, I found myself a Knight. and them The sacred yanit I entered In, Dy mystic numbers four. Twss there, Impressed with holy awe, A gold engra Yen plate 1 saw, With dasallng splendor chine, To us. the Grand Elect alone Its secret characters are known, Inegeble—Dlvine.
Ibis precious Ireacure. long concealed,
was by three worthy Knights r.. vealed. Where cyst a Temple stood, Its ancIent rulna they erplored And foond lb. Grand Mysterious Word. Made known before the flood. Pulmled waa then the promise made. And Beauty’s plllar~ancn dIsplayed The treasure ilijy bad found. Their ancient zeal and pIety. TheIr daikgerona toll and constancy, Were with due honor crowned. Hours lIke those, we all shall prove. Who, mIred In pure and social love, Perfection’s work pursue. May lb. SublIme Grand Architect Ry his nnerrlng laws direct The honored, chosen few. May all, who friendships feast partake, The good pursue. the bad forsake, And may each rite and aign, A happy, lasting Influence shed; The quadrant crowned, the oil the bread, The golden ring, the wine.
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Long as I lit., this ring PU weal, Symbol of an alliance, dear To every brother’s heart; And bless the sacred ti, that binds In vlrtne~s chain, for virtue Joins What death can never part.
Thrice Puissant-Brother Senior Warden, what conducted you hither? Senior Warden—Thrice Puissant, it is the love of masonry, my obligation and a desire to the perfection of masonry. Thrice Puissant-What have you brought here? Senior Wardeta—A heart zealous for friendship and love of virtue. Thrice Puissant-What are the proper qualities for acquiring this? Senior IVard.eta—The first two conduct us immediately to the third, and when these are properly attained they lead us to happiness and Thrice Puissant-What is the true disposition of an Elect and Perfect Mason? Senior Warden—To divest his heart of iniquity, vindictiveness and jealousy; to be always ready to do good and never employ his tongue in calumniating his brother. Thrice Puissant-How are you to behave in this place? Senior Warden—With profound respect. Thrice Puissant—How comes it that rich and poor, prince and subject are here always friends and brothers? Senior Warden—Because there is something in that Delta, (pointing to it) repeated on the pedestal and firmament which is greater than you. ‘~
Nets 14.—”A French system founded by do Bonneville. 1754. whIsk ainuined that the Freemasons were lbs. lineal deacendants of the Tom~srs.degrees. and therefore Stephen that Morinall and Ussons others were introduced Knights some Teinplar. modiflestiosa It had and additiona Into the rIte, and transplanted It in the Dulled Slates nude, the name of the Ancient and Accepted rite.~’—Ks.ey’a~syh. pelts asS Utetiemy d F,esmase.y, hat. Posfestlam, EMs aS
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Thrice Puissant—Why is the Delta the subject of your respect? Senior Warden—Because is contains the sacred name of the Eternal God, known, revered and exalted in Heaven and on eartb by the name of the Great Archit?ct of the Universe. Thrice Pu~.ssan i—What age are yau? Senior Warden—Three times three, the perfect number 81, when properly repeated by our mysterious calculation. Thrice Pui8sant—Haw, my brather, can you demonstrate this? Senior Warden—I am a Perfect Sublime Elect Mason, my travels are finished and it is now time for me to reap the fr’uit af my labar. Thrice Pui8sani—What did yau contract when you were made a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason? Senior Warden—I contracted an alliance with virtue dnd the virtuous. Thrice Puiuant—What mark have yau got to shaw it? Senior Warden—This gold ring, a symbal of purity. Thrice Pui8sant—What’s ~he clock? Senior Warden—Higti twelve. Thrice Puissant—What do you understand by high twe!ve? Sdnior Warden—Because the Sun at ith zenith darts ts rays perpendicularly into this lodge, intimating the time to work efficaciously to the end of our perfection, and to profit by it8 generosity. Thrice Pui8san i—Where will you find materials? Senior Warden—In the trea8ury and virtue of the pe?feet masons, ~n regularly composing my actian~ iI’ my heart by the square avid cornpass of itivine wisao’~
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Thrice Puissant—Where is the divine wisdom displayed? Senior Warden—In the hearts of the worthy, upright brethren who compoes this respectable lodge, of which you are the supporter. Thrice Puissant—And now my respect*ble brethren, I am going to enforce your designs to this effect. Brother Senior Grand Warden, announce that I am goiug to open this lodge of Grand Elect Perfect”’ and Sublime Masons by the mysterious numbers, 3-5-7-9. Senior Warden—Brethren, you will please take notice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to open this lodge of Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons by the mysterious numbers 3-5-7 and 9. Junior Wardet~—(Claps three slow; 000, all na..) Senior Warden—(Claps five slow; 00000.) Thrice Puissani—(Claps seven slow; 0000000, all are ~iIent for a moment.) Thrice Puissant—(Claps three; 000.) To order my brethren; (all make the sign of obligation.) Note Z41.—~Tbo Lodge in which tbe fourteenth degree of tbe Ancient and A~eepted Scottiub Rite a coofened. In England and America this degree is calied Grand Sleet Perfeet and Sublime Mainon. hut the Frencb deuignate it Grand Scottish Mns3n of the Saered Vault of James VI.. or BUM ~cmia dO k Vout. User.. du laquos VI. Tbls Is one of the eyldencq.—and a Ye~ pregnant oae—of tbe influence ezercised by the exiled Stnafls and their adherents on tbe Mainonry of that time i~ making it an instrument fcq the restoration of James II., and tben ot hia son, to the throne of 3ngland. This degree, as concluding all refecence to the Brat Temple. ha. been ‘ailed the ultimate degree of ancient Masonry. It Is the last ot what i• technically styled the Ineffable degrees, bec,uae their inatruetlons relate to tbe Ineffasle word. It. place of meeting Is called the 5acred vault. Its principal offi. era are a ‘Thrice Pulagant Grand Maiter. two Grand Warden., a Grand Treasurer, and Grand Secretary. In the first organjmation of the Rite in this country, the Lodges of Perfeetlon were called SuhIIme Grand Lndges. and, hence, the word “Grand’ is itill affixed to the title ot tbe officer.. Tbe tollowiiig mytbical bistory is connected with and related in this de~~•n tbe Temple was finished. tbe Mamma wbo bad been employed in constructing it acquired immortal honor Their order became inoi, Iloiforml7 pstablisbed and regulated than it bad been befotp. Their autlon and icser,e in admitting new memberu produced aeuect. mmd merit alone warn required of the candidate, With thou. principlc Inmtilfrd into their minds. many of the Grand Sleet left tbe Temple after its dedicatI~rn. und. diaperuing themaelyes among the neigbboring nationa. instructed all who applied and wee found wcrtby i~ the sublime dev~g •f Ancient Croft Masonry.’ —Msok.~. EaqoIapa.dla of Szmsuaamq. AitioI. ?STfOtiOU, Lode, .(.
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-Second Guard—How does he expect to gain admis-
lion? Master of Ceremonies—By the pass!’ Second Guard—Give me the pass.
Candidate—(Prompted by Master of Ceremonies) El-Hhanan.
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The candidate must be prepared in the ante-room as a, Knight of the Royal Arch by the Grand Master of Ceremonies. He then conducts him to the entrance of the narrow passage and gives him the first pass-word, and orders him to knock 3, 5, 7, and give the pass-word Shibboleth three times with an aspiration. N. B.—In the ceremonies of initiation the narrow passage can be represented by passing through three (3) ante-rooms and giving the alarm at each door or in any manner as best suits the situation of the room. First Guard—Who comes there? Masier of Ceremonies—At Sub~lime Knight of the
Royal Arch who desires perfection in being introduced into the Sacred Vault. First Guard—How does he expect to gain admission? Masier of Ceremonies—By the pass. First Guard—’Give me the pass. Candidale—Shibboleth, Shibboleth, Shibboleth. First Guard—Pass. They then Vroceed to the second door and knock 3, 5. 7. Second Guard—Who comes there? Masier of Ceremonies—A Sublime Knight of the Royal Arch who having passed the first guard, desires
perfection in being introduced into the Sacred Vault.
They then proceed to the door of the lodge and knock 3, 5, 7 and 9. Junior Grand Warden—(Knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.) Senior Grand Warden—(Knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.) Thrice Puissant Grand Master— (Knocks 3, 5, 7, and 9.) Brother Junior Grand Warden go and see who knocks at our door as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason. Junior Grand Warden—(Goes to the door and knocks 3, 5, 7, 9, opens the door and says:) Who knocks at our door as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason? Who is there? Master of Ceremonies—A Sublime Knight of the Royal Arch, who desires perfection in being introduced into the Sacred Vault. Thrice Puissant Grand Master—Let him be introduced in a proper manner.
The door is then opened by the Captain of the Guard who says, let him be admitted. He enters and is conducted round the lodge to the Altar, they at the same time pointing their naked swords at his breast. As he enters the Thrice Puissant says: Thrice Puissant—The Lord is in his Holy Temple. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. Hiram King of Tyre—Lord, who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? Thrice Puissant—He that walketh upright and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart.
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Senior Grand Warden—He that sweareth to his m hurt and changeth not his oath, who swearei~Ji not by the name of God profanely. Master of Ceremonies—What man is he that desiroth life and loveth max~y days that he may see good? Thrice Puissant—Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile; depart from evil and do good, seek peace and ensue it. Senior Grand Warden—Thus saith the Lord of Hosta, amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place forever. King of Tyre—Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin, for there is not a just man on the earth who dceth good and sinneth not—no not one. Thrice Puissant-But whoso confesseth his sins and forsaketh them he shall have mercy, saith the Lord of Hosts. Senior Grand Warden—Thus saith the Lord, Heaven is my Throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house ye have builded unto me? For all these things hath my hands made. But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and that trembleth at my word. King of Tyre—From the rising of the Sun, even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense (at this word the coals which are in the pan on the Altar of per. fumes are lighted and the incense burnt) shall be offered unto my narie, and a pure offering, for my name shall be great among the heathen, said the Lord of Hosts. (Master of Ceremonies then orders the candidate to make the sign of ‘admiration.J Tlwicd Puissant—What do you want, my brother?
Muter of Ceremonies—Thrice Puissant Grand Mastsr, he asks the Perfection of Masonry and to be taught the true pronunciation of God’s Ineffable1 ca name. Thrice Puissant—Brethren, do you consent that tills Knight of the Royal Arch shall be raised to the degree of Perfection? (The brethren consent by holding up their right hands.) Thrice Puissant—Before I initiate you my brotlicr, into the sacred mysteries of Perfection, you must answer the questions I am now going to demand of you; otherwise you must~ be sent back. Thrice Puissant—Are you an Entered Apprentice? Candidate—Thrice Puissant, my brethren know inc to be such. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them by advancing by the Entered Apprentice step. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Fellow Craft? Candidate—I have seen the G.~. and know the password. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to thc Senior Grand ~Varden. Candidate gi’~ Fellow Craft step, etc. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Master Mason? Candidate—I know the Sprig of Acacia, and every thing it consummates. Thrice Puissant—Give the Pass, Sign, Token and Word to the Junior Grand Warden. Candidate gives Master’s step, etc. (as soon as he pronounces the real word I Mah-hah.bone] the brethren run and lunge their swords at him.)
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Thrice Puissant—What have you done? You aifright us my brother on speaking this word so high. We are always ready to rnuiish the indiscretion of those persons who pronounce this word so high and loud for fear some of the profane might hear you, but as you did not do it with a bad intention we freely forgive yon. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Secret Master? Candidate—I have passed from the Square to the Compass, I have seen the tomb of our respectable Mastar Hiram Abiff and have shed tears thereat. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives the Secret Master’s step, .etc. Thrice Pussant—Are you a Perfect Master? Candidaie—I have seen the three circles and the three perfect squares placed on the two columns across. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them, and as soon as he pronounces the word “Jeva” or “Jehovah,” all cry out, what do you say? Thrice Puissant-We are always alarmed when we hear this word given, and are always ready to put any man to death who dare to pronounce it, or the least syllable of the sacred mysterious name. Thrice Puissant—Are you an Intimate Secretary? Candidate—My curiosity is satisfied which had almost cost me my life. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Provost and Judge? Candidate—I render justice to all workmen without any distinction.
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Thrice Puissant-Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate Gives them. Thrice Puissant-Are you an Intendant of the Building? Candidate—I have made the five steps of eiactitude, hive penetrated into the innermost part of the temple, have seen the effect of the great light in the middle of which I perceived certain Hebraic characters which were unknown to mx.. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant-Are you an Elected Knight? Candidate—One cavern received me, one lamp lighted me and one fountain refreshed me. Thrice Puissant--Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Grand Master Elect? Candidate-—My zeal and labor have procured me this degree. Thrice Psd~sant-Where were you received and by whom? Candidde-—By Solomon himself in his study. Thrice Puissant—When were you received and on what occasion? Candidate—When he sent me with my companions to search for the two other ruffians who destroyed our Grand Master Architect Hiram Abiff. Thrice Puissant-How came they to be discovered? Candidate—By the indu~try of Benjah or Bengabee. Solomon’s Intendant in the county of Cheth.
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Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant-Are you a Sublime Knight Elected? Candidate—Myi name will inform you. Thrice Puissant-What is your name? Candidate—Emerk is my true name. Thrice Pui.ssant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant-Are you a Grand Master Architect? Candidate—As I possess all the science of mathematics, I know also all the attributes. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word t. the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant—What is the Most Sublime Degree you have received in Masonry? Candidate—The thirteenth, which I received by per. nii~ion of Divine Providence. Thrice Puissant—Explain this to me, my brother. Candidate—I searched in~ the bnknown ruins and at length found the Divine Delta”’ which had been prom. ised the Holy Patriarcfi~s should one day be found. Thrice Puissant—What do you understand by the Divine Delta? Candidate—It is a triangular gold plate filled with rttys, on which was engraved by Enoch the sacred name of Almighty God. Note 144.—”Tbe name of the toneth letter of the Greek alphabet. Ta t~’rm It Is a trange. and was conaldered by the ancient Sgyptlana a aymhol of See, and also of God. In the Scottish and French syatema. and alan that of the KnI 1btu Tem~,lar the tria loot delta I. a aymhol of the Unspeakable Nam.~. —Kaoq a me7alag~6Ja aM DietIonaa~ at lie. maa7. AaUd. Da~ta.
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Thrice Puissant—I presume, my brother, you are acquainted with that mysterious name? Candidate—I am not; my time has not expired; the Sacred name is only known by the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masters. All my hope is in God, that I shall arrive at a knowledge of it in fullness of time. Thrice Puissant-What is your quality? Candidate—Knight of the Royal Arch. Thrice Puissant—What is your name? Candidate—Guibelim or Jahbulim. Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word to the Senior Grand Warden. Candidate gives them. Thrice Puissant—What do you now desire, my brother? Candidate—The Sublime Degree of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason. Thrice Puissant—(Giving the sign of Admiration.) God will permit you this day to receive what you so much desire. Senior Grand Warden—Brother Grand. Master of Ceremonies, you will now retire with the candidate until he is wanted. (Master of Ceremonies and candidate retire.) Thrice Puissant—My dear brethren do you again consent that this Knight of the Royal Arch be passed to the degree of Perfection? (All hold up their right hands in taken of consent.) Thrice Puissant—Let us applaud by 9-7-5 and 3, to.. gether, brethren. (All applaud.) Thrice Puissant—Brother Captain of the Guard let the candidate be admitted. Captain of Guard—(Goes to the door, gives it.) Let the candidate be admitted. Master of Ceremonies enters with candidate and conducts him around the ~ flodge] and to the Altar, durlug which the Thrice Puissant recites: Thrice Puissant—And Moses called all Israel and said
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unto them, hear U Israel the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn, keep and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers but with us, even us who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord talketh with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, (I stood between the Lord and you at that time to show you the word of the Lord for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not up into the mount) saying I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage: Thou shall have none other God before me. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain, keep the Sabbath day t~ sanctify it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh ‘day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy eat~le, nor the stranger that is within thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest as well as thou. Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy Ood hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s wife, neithcr shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s house, his field, his man servant or his maid
aervant~ his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s. These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire of the clouds and of the thick darkness with a great voice, and he added no more, and he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them to me. Thrice Puissant-My brother, do you know in your conscience since you have been made a mason of having behaved falsely to any of your brethren or of having hurt them in their character or family, religion or country? Candidate answers as he thinks proper. Thrice Puissant-Have you ever communicated or let escape from you any of our mysteries to cowans? Candidate answers. Thrice Puissant—What would you have done to the assassins of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff had you lived in those days? Would you have revenged his death? Candidate—I would have done as Joabert did Thrice Puissant-Have you always been mindful of the obligations you have contracted in the presence of the Grabd Architect of the Universe? Candidate answers. Thrice Puissant-Did you ever find anything in your obligations which was contrary to and against your religion, the state or anything else which could hurt your delicacy? Candidate answers. Thrice Puissant-Remember, my brother, if you approach cool and indifferent to our sacred mysteries you will be the more blamable after receiving the Degree of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Muon than you would
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have been before, and will have more to answer for at the great and awful day of judgtnent, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed. This degree, my brother, you are now about to receive is the Perfection of Masonry. You will be bound to the order by an indispensable obligation, which is now unknown to you, but when it is communicated I hope it will be permanently fi~zed in your recollection. My dear brother, demonstrate to us the goodness of your heart by a steady pursuit of virtue and a sincere love for all good brethren, but particularly for those who receive you into their fellowship and have given you their support and protection, who are your fellows and superiors. What do you say? Candidate—I will. Thriee Puissant—My dear brother, as you are now desirous of being taught the true pronunciation of God’s Ineffal~le name, are you ready to ventureyour life in the defense of that supreme mystery when it shall have been entrusted to your care and are you desirous of contracting your new obligation? Candidate—: am, most sincerely. Thrice Puissant—If you are go, my brother, and wash your hands in the Brazen Sea to prove your innocence and that you have not revealed any of your former engagements; our forefathers used the same ceremony when they were accused of crimes to prove themselves guiltless. Thrice Puissant—Brother Master of Ceremonies, con-
duct the candidate to the Brazen Sea. Let him purify his hands and then conduct him to the Altar of Sacrifice. Master of L’eremonies—Leads him to the Brazen Sea, causes him to wet and wipe his hands, and leads him to the Altar of Sacrifice,, causes him to recline his hea8 against it, takes an axe and holds it suspended over the bare neck of the candidate. When he says, before this Altar of a broken and contrite spirit, with the fire of
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holy zeal, drag by confession your sins and mortify them by hatred thereof, offer them up in a renewed consecration as a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing unto God. May we all offer up to him on the altar of our hearts sacrifices of humility and praise, with the fire of fervent charity. Let us offer a sacrifice of joy in the tabernacle of the Lord and sacrifice the sacrifice of thanksgiving wherefore to do good and communicate; let us forget not, for with such sacrifice is the Lord well pleased. Let us pray. INITIATORY PRAYER.
Almighty and Sovereign Grand Architect of the Universe, thou who ridest in the Heavens by thy name Jali, let all the earth keep silence before thee; there is no God like unto thee in the heavens above nor in the earth beneath. Thou who keepest covenant with and showe~t mercy unto thy servants who walk before thee with all their hearts, when we draw nigh thy majesty, may we
ever preserve thy love and the characters of thy ineffable essence engraven indelibly upon our hearts. 0 purify our hearts we beseech thee by the fire of thy love and guide our feet in the way of peace, the perfeet path that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day. May we all have an interest in that covenant which is well ordered in all things and sure; may we dwell together in unity and be all of one mind, having compassion one toward another and love as brethren. May all Elect Masons like the Elect of God put on a charity which is the bond of Perfection; may our loins be girt with the girdle of truth and, finally having been faithful in all our course, may we be brought to behold
the light Ineffable and be admitted into that sacred
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place where the Sun shall no more give light by day; neither for brightsiesa shall the Moon give light, but the Lord our Adonai shall be unto us an everlasting light and our God our glory. Amen. Thrice Puissant-My brother, you are now in; the most sacred and secret place in Masonry, the sacred mysteries of which are now going to be revealed to you as we repose the utmost confidence in your discretion. Come, my brother, add to our satisfaction by swearing
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Royal Degree without distinction of riches or poverty,
noble or ignoble birth, and to give no other prefcrenct but to those who are greatest in virtue. That I never will refuse to acknowledge a brother ‘who is a good man in any situation, country or condition.
fidelity to us. Master of Ceremonies—Leads the candidate eight
in which he may be placed. ro support him if he is in want, if I can do it without injury to my family. I do furthermore swear that I will, if possible, meet my lodge at least twice a year, namely, on the 27th of December and the 24th of June, and as often as my affairs will conveniently permit; I promise to visit my
quick steps and one slow to the Thrice Puissant, having the sign of Elected Master on him, when he kneels and
brethren in sickness and help and assist them with my counsel, with my purse and with my arm; to give them
contracts his obligation. OBLIGATION GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.
•I do most solemnly and sincerely swear on the Holy Bible, and in the presence of the Grand Architect of the Universe and this respectable lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons, to be faithful and true to my religion.
I do furthermore swear that I will never take up arms against my country or ever Lenter into any conspiracy or cabal against the same, or come to a knowledge of such intention from any other without communcating it to
the proper authorities. I do furthermore swear never to reveal, either directly or indirectly, to the Grand Master Architect or Knight of the Royal Arch, or to any person or persons whatever to whom it doth not belong, the mysteries of this our Sacred and High Degree, or any other matter or thing that shall occur or take place in our lodge. [ promise an equal regard for my brethren of this
consolation and assistance, whether in affliction or in pain, and in the common vicissitudes of life. I furthermore swear that I will never lie with my
brother’s wife, nor dishonor his sister, daughter nor any female of his family, knowing them to be such. I further promise that I will never make, or assist in making, or by my presence, give sanction to the making of any person to the degree of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason who is not or has not been a Master or Nominal Past Master of a regular Symbolic Lodge.
I furthermore swear that I will not acknowledge belonging to or be a member of any Sublime Lodge
that may be established within the distance of twentyfive miles of one already legally and properly established. In failure of this, my obligation, I cot.sent to have my belly cut open, my bowels torn from thence and given to the hungry vultures. So God help and maintain me in triith and equity. Amen.
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Thrice Puissant—My brother, salute the Bible three times. (Candidate obeys.) Thrice Puissant—Rise, my brother, and receive the
same consecration which every successive Champion of the Secret Vault has received since its discovery. Thrice Puissant—Brother Master of Ceremonies, con-
duct the candidate to the Altar of Perfumes (obeys and causes him to kneel). Thrice Puissant—By the power transmitted to me
and which I have acquired by my assiduity, labor and integrity I make sacred your heart, lips and eyes with the Holy oil that apointed the pious Aaron, the penitent
David and the Wise Solomon. May your heart ever throb with a hope of immortality, may your lips ever invoke the true name of the Grand Architect of the Universe, and may your eyes behold him face to face and not fail when they awake in the dazzling glory of his presence. I now stamp you with the seal of the Grand Architect of the Universe (stamps him), to the end that you may always live in his adorable presence and that he may always be in your heart and mind and that an ardent zeal and constancy may always be the rulc of all your actions. Brother Master of Ceremonies, you will conduct the
candidate round the lodge to the table of Shew-bread. Thrice Puissant—(Rehearses.) Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head which ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that went down to the skirts of his garments. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. ff he reprove me it phAll be an excellent oil. If thy brother be waxen old
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and poor and fallen into decay thou shalt relieve him. dive of thy bread to feed the hungry and of thy wine to cheer the sorrowful, and forget not to pour the oil of consolation into the wounds which sickness and affliction may have rent in the bosom of thy fellow traveler. By kindness and commiseration fail not to pour the balm of oil and wine into the bleeding heart. Our labors of duty and love will soon be over. As the lightning writes its fiery path upon the dark cloud and disappears, so the race of men walking amid the surrounding shades glitter for a moment through the gloom and vanish frcni our sight forever. Thrice Puissant— (Now presents him with first the bread and then the wine.) Eat with me of this bread and drink of this wine out of the same cup with me that we may learn- thereby to succor each other in time of need by a mutual love and participation of what we possess. (Both eat and drink.) Thrice Puissant—(Presents to him a gold ring, saying:) “Receive this ring and let it be remembered by you as a symbol of the alliance you have now contracted with virtue and the virtuous.” You are never, my dear brother, to part with it while you live, nor to bequeath it at your death except to your wife, your eldest son or your nearest friend. Candidate—I promise. (All now partake of bread and wine awl makE ~ libation according to ancient custom, a~ practiced at the Sacrifices.) (Thrice Puissant now returns to the throne hiram, King of Tyre—Thrice Pui~sant 6rand Master, shall we now communicate the true Pronunciation of the ineffable name to the candidate?
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Thrice Puissant—Brother Hiram, to the best of your ability give the mystic name which the High Priests of the Israelites knew how to utter.
(All form a circle
round the Altar.) !hrjo. Pulaaant—Lol ~4atnre guards our vestal fire. which never, never can espire. with hearts that never change or falter, we here aurrouud our common Altar. Religion builds it, and a beam From Heavens own Throne, no fitful gleam, wraps it in fiamea. While band in hand. we round this Disaing Alter atand. tat us. as Elect Masons true virtues eternul league renew: While celebrating friendship’s feast May love he onr ever welcome guest, And now in adoration bow To him to bears and seals each vow. Glory to God who reigns above And to our fellow creatures love.
(All kneel and communicate the word “Jod.‘.He.~. Vau. .He. around the Altar; Hiram King of Tyre,
SIGN OF OBLIGATION.
1’lace the right hand on the left side of the abdomen and draw it quickly and horizontally across the body to the right side.
sign or Obligation I. U. P. and 5. Masse.
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the Thrice Puissant and candidate together. AU rise.) Thrice Puissant-Have a care, this pronunciation is probably erroneous, and it is vain for man to suppose
that God has a proper name, or if he has one that it could be uttered by the human voice. Thp various words by which he has been addiessed in different ages and countries are all equally holy and true, if he who speaks them has a pure conception of the Divine Attributes and perfect rove toward the Divine Entiety. His name is unutterable; no lips can speak it, no ear
FIRST TOKEN.
Join the right hands, reverse theni thrice. The first
brother says, “Berith” the second says, “Keder,” the first then saya,”Shelentoth.’~
can hear it, but it resounds in the heart of him who loves and adores. We greet you, my brother, as a Knight of the Sacred Vault.
Thrice Puissant—Brother Grand Master of Ceremonies, you will now communicate to the candidate the Signs, Token and Words.
WORDS.
First Pass II’ord—Shihboleth. First Covered Word—Jabuluin.
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WORD. SIGN OP FIRE.
Rai~e the right hand open to the left cheek the palms outward, at the same t4me grasping the elbow with the left hand.
Second Covered Word—Makobirn, Interpreted,”That’s he I He is dead.” Second Pass Word—El-Hhanan.
SIG& OF ADMIRATION.
Raise both hands opened to heaven, the head inclined, the eyes directed upwards, afterward place the first two £ngers of the right hand on the lips. SECOND TOKEM.
Give the Master’s Grip, one says, can you go further?
Sign of Admiratioe.
THIRD TOKEN.
Seize each other’s right hand, grasp each
Second Token. ANSWER.
other’s right shoulder with the left hand and then pass left hands behind each other’s back as if to bring one anoiher closer.
The other slips his hand along the other’s forearm up to the elbow. Each then places his left hand on
the other’s right shoulder and balance thrice, the legs crossed from the right.
Third Token.
WORD.
Third Covered Word—.Adonai.
Third Pass Word—Bea Makeb, Bamearah, interpre. ted, “Thank God we have found.”
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SACRED WORD :—Jehovah. GRAND WORD
:—Jod. ‘.He. ~.Van.‘.He.. The grand in-
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,,erseverance. The Girdle was used to bind on the garments and prevent them from flying open and discovering our
effable and real name of the Almighty Grand Architect of the Universe, and never to be pronounced. BATTERY :—Twenty-four strokes by three, five, seven and nine; 000 00~00 0000000 000000000.
nakedness and is an emblem of charity, to the observance of which virtue you have been laid under new obliga-
:—Eight hurried steps and then one slower,
Let it be your endeavor to be adorned with and rich in those virtues which its various colors represent.
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altogether nine. AGE :—Seien times seven years. HOURS OF WORK :—From high twelve till midnight. Thrice Puissant—My dear brother, I now salute you as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and with great pleasure decorate you with the symbols of the grade. COLLAR :—This coHar of flame color is emblematic of ardent zeal, affection and charity. CROWN :—The crown on your jewel is a symbol of the royal origin of the grade. COMPASS :—The compass extended to ninety degrees denotes the extensive knowledge of the Grand Elect. SUN :—In the centre, that our actjons should be as open as the full blaze of the noonday sun and our charity as diffusive as its beams. JEWEL :—This jewel suspended on your breast should remind you to be attentive to your duties and admonishes you ever to walk so a~ to adorn your station. GIRDLE :—I also invest you with the girdle of a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason 4’ was used of old to strengthen the body The and to Girdle’ enable man to continue and persist in his labors.
It is therefore an emblem of activity, promptness and Note 145.—”Girdle. In ancient aymboiogy the girdle warn always considered as typical of chastity and purity, in the Brahmanicsl initiations. the raudidate was prr’seoted with the Zennar, or sacred cord, as a part of the ancred garments. and Gibh~ nays that ‘at the age of puberty the faithful Persian wns investe4 yith a mysterious girdle; fifteen ~enuiiections were required afire he 3ut on the sacred girdie.~ The oid Tempiara assumed the obilyntions of poverty, obedience and chsatity4 and~ girdle was given them, at their initiation. as n symbol of ‘the inst of the three vows As a symbol of purity, the girdle is slill used in many chivalriC initiations, and may be prnperiy considered as the aririogue of the Mssonc at,ron.~—M*Oh5F’5 Enoyalopandia of mesasscm?. Article Girdle.
tions. The Girdle was also used for ornament and, beauty. These are arranged by three, five, seven and nine.
The three are blue, red and yellow, by a due mixture
of which the primitive colors” are formed. The five consists of these three and a green aicd purple.
The seven of the five with white and black. And the nine of these seven and stone and flame colors. The Blue”5 is an emblem of friendship and fidelity.
The Red”’ of zeal. The Yellow’” which resembles gold, of wisdom, which Nets IU.—’Golus Symbolism of. wemyss I. his Claris Symbelica, says ~Coior,which is outwardly seen on the habit of the body. Is nym. boliralir used to denote the true state of the person or subject to which it is a”piied. according to its nature. This definition may appropriately be borrowed on the present occasion, and applied to the system of Ma sonic colors. The color of a vestment or of a decoration is never arbitrarily adopted in Frcemasonry. Every color is selected with s view to its power in the symbolic alpbabet. and it teaches the initiate some instruc~ tive moral lesson., or refers to some important historloal fact in the system,” ‘—Mackeys Esayelepeedia of Fresmassery, hatiels OsIm. lym. beilsa of. Note 147. “DIne. This ii emphatically the color of Masonry. It is the appropriate tincture of the Ancient Crsft degrees. It is to the Mason a symbol of universal friendship and begevolence. because. as it is the color of the vault of heavea, which emhraces and covers the whole globe, we sre thus reminded that in the breast of every brother these virtues should be eqoally as extensive. ‘—Mackeys Zacyotopasdia ci Freemasonry, hillel. Dine. late 14*,—”wbere red is not need historteally, and adopted as a memento of certain tragicel circumstances in the history of Masonry 1 it is alwsys. under some modification, a symbol of seal sod fervency.~ —Mackeys EncyclopaedIa of Freemasonry. Article Red. Nats 149,—’Ysllow. Of all the the colors, yellow seems to be the least important and the least general in Masonic symbolism, In other institutions it would bays the same insignificance, were it not that it has been adopted as the representative of the sun, and of the soble metal gold. Ihus, in colored hiasonry, the small dots, by which the gold in. an engraved coat of arms is designated, are replaced by the yel. low color. La colombiere. a wench hersidic writer, u,s. (Science Esro. ique. p 30.) in remarking on the connection between gold end yellow that as yellow, which is derived from the sun is the moat exaltsu& of colors, so gold is the moat noble of metsia.~ —ibokeys Zasyolopesilo of Fresmasemny, Article Fellow.
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said the wisest of Kings, is better than fine gold. The Green”’ is an emblem of hope.,
The Purple”’ of dignity and majesty of conduct. Purple is a Tyrian color and reminds us of the alliance into which you have now entered. The White’’ is an emblem of innocence. The Black”’ of modesty and seriousness of demeanor. The next color is that of stone, as stone is distinguished for firmness and durability; so this color teaches us constancy and decision’ of character. The flame color reminds us to cultivate ardent affection and charity. The various colors united in this girdle are expressive of that unity and the olive interwoven of that pesec whIch should link us together. And as these colors shine in your girdle, so let the virtues they represent shine in your heart and life. Your apron I now invest you with is white, lined and bordered with crimson; these colors symbolized have already been explained to you. Note lao,— This idea ot the unchangipg immortality ot that which is divine and trite, was always connected by the ancients with tbe color of green. Among the Egyptians, the god Phtha, the active spirit, the creator and regenerator of the world, the ~goddesss Pascbt. the divige proserver, :tnd Thoth, the instructor ~of uteri in ihc sacred doctrines of truth vere alt painted Ic the hieroglyphic s’stem with green flesh.”— Mackeys Enuyulopaedia of Freemasonry Article Green. Note 151.—Among the gentile nationa ot antiquity purple was cou~ sidered rather as a color of dignity than of veneration. Bud was deemed an emblem of exalted office. Hence Homer mentions it as peculiarly appropriated to royalty, and virgil speaks of purpura regum. or ‘the pur. plc of kings.’ Putty says it was the color of the vestments worn by the csrly kings of Rome~ and it has ever since, even to the present time, bee,, cotisidered as the becoming insignia of regal or supreme authority ‘‘—Mackey’s Enoyclopsadia of treemasonry, Article Purple, Note l58.—’White, White is one of the most ancient sa welt as most extensively diffused of the symbolic colors, It is to he found in sil the aucient mysteries, where it conatititted, as it does in Masonry. the investiture of the candidste. It always, however, and everywbefe has borne the same sianifleation as the symbol of purity and innocence.” —Mackeys Encyci,paedia of Freemasonry, Article White. Note IN—Black. Black, in the titisonic rittini, is cnnstnnt!y ike symbol of grief, This is perfectly consist’nt with its use i~ the world where black has from remote antiqttity been adopted as the gttrmeni ot mourning, ‘—Machey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article 31Mb.
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Thus, my brother, by your uleritoriotifi ~nd blameless conduct, constancy and integrity you have attained
the tith,’ of Grand Elect, Perfect ~nd Sublime Mason, which is the summit of Ancient Craft Masonry, and
upon your arrival to which I sincerely congratulate you. I most earnestly rccolIlillend to you the strictest care and circumspection in your walk through life that the sublime mysteries of this degree be not profaned, and as to what remains of completing ~‘ourknowledge in the Ancient 5’~tate of Mnconrv I will cttll sour attention to our Grand Orator, who will now (leliver the discourse of tllis degree. DISCIM’ll’.” BY OIINND
os troa.
My dear brother, “lieu the Tenipl&’ of solomon was fini-hued tim-c nw~on- ~ihtowele emplo~’ed In the con~trnction of that ~tatel~’td dice acquired inllnortal honor—. ‘i’Ia’ir order bet tulle lttOi’e uniformh~’ v~tablIshed and re’.rulated than it had been before. Their thelicacy in atlinitting hew lnelltbt’r— ilito tlteil’ ordet’ brought it to a high degree of re~peet, as tlte merit of each candidate was tIle only t’iiIg tltc~’ paid attention to, WitlI these principles instilled ilIto tlwir minds many of the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons being able workmen left Jerusalem after the dedication of the temple and dispersed themseli’e~ among the hteighboling kingdoms, instructing all wIlo applied and ~t’erefound worthy of receiving the Sublime Mysteries of thIe Royal Art. Notwitllstanding these precautions the order in the three first degrees Inilltiphied over the face of the earth, so that their numbers were without i,toasurc, And by their indiscriminate nrlitiis~ion tlteir seoret’~ were disclosed, their knowledge became common ;illd the degrees
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fell into great disrepute. The Grand Elect and rerfect Masons were so cautious in concealing the mysteries of the higher degrees of masonry that they determined to initiate only as far as the third degree.
You are aware, m~y brother, that many unworthy masons of the lower degrees have by their imprudence suffered their signs and tokens to be discovered by cowans. These occurrences chagrined the Perfect Masons, who were but few in number, and they endeavored to stop the evil, but all their exertions were fruitless.
The Craft degenerated, as receptions were obtained too easily. The intervals of the degrees were broken into too
hastily, and mere amusement was Xreferred to useful strdction. Innov2tions increase and new doctrines were introduced which destroyed all the old and useful regulations of the order. These differences occasioned disputes, quarrels, heart burnings, jealousies and dissensions, which in the end
produced the discovery of the mysteries of the first three degrees to the vulgar and profane. How happy it is, my brother, that those unguarded brethren were ignorant of the Sublime Mysteries of the
Grand Elect,. Perfect and Sublime Masons. Let us, my brother, endeavor to prev~ent these degrees from sharing the same unhappy fate by preserving them in their Ancient Perfection as we have traveled to obtain the knowledge of the Ancient Elect, and to imitate them in their devotions, whose principal study was the contem-
plation of the adorable attributes of the Grand Architect of the Universe. Solomon expressly chose this word for the Ancient Masters to fill the princival workmen with veneration
for the great and eternal God, to whom the temple was dedicated and also to incite them to perform their s~veral duties cheerfully while employed in erecting a temple to his Holy name.
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This wise King knew the force of his most Holy name; .he also knew that he had appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush and had declared to him his true name, and that he was the only Patriarch who knew it; also that he would be invoked by no other name- in the temple. My brother, the real and ineffable name of the Grand Architect of the Universe as given by God to Moses was
the Master’s Word. When our Grand Master Hiram Abiff was killed, by his courage and magnanimity its
discovery was prevented, which frustrated the hopes of his murderers. It was then determined never to entrust a secret of so much importance to any person; and another word was used in its stead until the discovery of the brilliant Delta by the Knights of the Royal Arch in the ruins of Enoch, on which was cngraved the Ineffable name which constihites the Perfection of Masonry. Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiran~, King of Tyre, communicated the interpretation of the characters on the brilliant Delta to none but the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons, under whose immediate protection they placed it in the Sacred Vault under the Sanctum Sanctorum of the temple, by which cowans have never been able to discover the place where the Sgcred name was deposited, as a strict gwird was kept to prevent the admission ‘of any but the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons. The temple was begun in the fourth yearof the reign of Solomon, the third after the death of David, four hundred and eighty years after the passage of the Red Sea, and on the second day of the second month, called
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0n the second day he admitted the Masters and .Knighta Elected into the middle chamber and there made them promise in the most sacred manner never to depart from the principles of virtue. To bear in their recollection the conduct of their respectable and much lamented chief as a model, to live in unity with each other in their wants and necessities and to faithfully guard the mysteries of the order and never communicate them to any but those who had merit sufficient to deserve them. He then gave them the degree of Grand Master Archi. tect and decorated them with the honors thereof, and also bestowed on them some other favors and permitted them also either to remain in Jerusalem or retire as they thought proper. On the third day lie gave audience to the Fellow Crafts in the Eastern part of the temple and rewarded those who appeared to him to be virtuous with the de-
in a little more than seven years. After a solemn invocation of the blessings of the Eternal God at tfie dedication of the house erected to his name, Solomonc held a feast with all the children of Israel for fourteen days, during which period lie gave audience to all the workmen.
The first ~ss the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Masons who were introduced mb the Sacred Vault, and at the same time the Grand Master Architects were in the King’s apartment. lie admitted to the degree of Perfection some of the most virtuous of the brethren and made them most solemnly promise tc. live together in peace, unity and concord, and to exercise the works of charity and benevolence in imitation of their deceased chief, and to make justice and equity the babis of their actions;~to observe a profound silence of thii~ degree and not to reveal it to any person but thosc who are entitled to receive it and had given proof of thicir zeal, fervor and constancy in support pf the craft; to assist each other and to relieve their mutual wants; to inflict vengeance on traitors and to punish perfidy and injustice. The King then blessed them in the name of the Lord God of Israel and showed them the Ark of Alliance opened, from whence the Eternal Jehovah, the Grand Architect of the Universe, delivered his oracles. He ordered many sacrifices and admitted them to a libation, embraced them and gave each of them a gold
ring as a proof of the alliance which they had formed with virtue and the virtu6us and made them several presents with permission either to remain in Jerusalem or to travel into foreign countries.
gree of Master. On the Entered Apprentices he conferred the degree of Fellow Craft and introduced them into the Porch of the temple; he then made them promise never to forsake those principles of virtue, of which their Ancient Chief was a memorable example; to live united and mutually to assist each other in carefully preserving the Signs, Tokens and Words, and never to communicate them to
any but those whose unexceptionaWe characters entitle them to that favor. He then made them several presents and permitted them to retire out of the city if they pleased and to enable those to prosecute their journey with ease and satisfaction, and as farther reward for their good conduct lie gave orders to his Intendants to
defray their expenses. Thus far this wise and virtuous
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King of Israel behaved worthy of himself and gained universal favor; but in process of time, when he had ad-
As an adequate punishment for the licentiousness of the people, God permitted divers nation to make war on them and to pillage their country. Ten of the tribes fell from the house of David and elected Jeroboan their King, by the style of King of IsraeL Rehoboam governed the tribes of Judah. In this
vanced in years, his understanding became impaired and he grew deaf to the voice of the Lord and was strangely irregular in his conduct. Proud of having erected an edifice to his maker and much intoxicated with his great power, he plunged into all manner of licentiousness and debauchery and profaned the temple by offering incense to the Idol Moloch instead of offering it to the living God.
The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this and were sorely grieved and fearful that his Apostasy’” would end in some dreadful consequence and perhaps bring upon them their enemies~ whom Solomon vainly and wantonly defied.
The people, copying the folhes
and vices of their King, became, proud and idolatrous, neglecting the worship of the True and living God for
that of idols. Those masons who had instructed their children in the
paths of virtue, agreeable to the principles of their order, endeavored by their council and example to deter their fellow citizens from in~-piety~and licentiousness but without success. A gre~t majority of good masons left Jerusalem that they might not behold the dreadful
punishment which awaited the idolatry of the people. Note 154.—”The Temple was completed in the year of the world Thus far the who King of Israel had behaved worthy of him. seif. and gsiue& unlverssj admiration - hut In process of time, when he had advanced in years, his understanding became impaired; be grew deaf to Lie voice of the Lord and was strangely irregular In his conduct. Proud of having erected an edifice to his Maker, and Intoxicated with hia great power. he plunged into all manner of iiceuiiousneas and debanchery. and profaned the Temple. by offering to the idol Moioch that incense which should have been offered only to the living Qod. The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this, and were sorely guieved. afraid that his spostasy would end in some dreadfni consequences, and bring npon them those enemies whom Solomon had vaingloriously and wantonly defied. The people, copying the vices and follies of their king, became proud and idolatrous, and a~leci~ the worship of the tine God for that of idrle.’~—Maeksys Enoyclopaedia of Vx..masanry, Article Perfection. Lodge of.
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manner were the tribes of Israel divided and under two distinct governments for 254 years, when the ten revolted tribes, having become weak and degenerated by following the wickedness and idolatry of the Kings who governed them, fell a prey to Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, who in the reign of Hosea, King of Israel, besieged the city of Samaria, laid their country waste apd
utterly extirpated their government; such was the wretched fate of a people who disdained subjection to the laws of the house of David, and whose impiety
ended in their destruction. In the third month of the reign of Jehoiachin, King of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took the city of Jerusalem and carried off the King captive and cut into pieces all the vessels of the temple. Zedekiah was then made King of Judah and had reigned eleven years. On the seventh day of the fifth month called Ab, Nebuzaradan, Captain of the’ Guards, entered Judah with fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusaleni, razed its walls and destroyed that superb model of excellence, the temple. The people were carried captives to Babylon and the conquerors carried with them all the treasures of the temple.
This happened in the year of
the world 3470, 470 years, 6 months and 10 days after its dedication.
The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons who were at Jerusalem at that time exerted themselves ‘with great bravery and fortitude in its defense, but without effect, for as soon as the temple had fallen into one general heap of ruins they directed their whole attentioD to the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury and
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the golden plate from being discovered. For that purpose a part3’ fought their way into the Sacred Vault, where they found the golden plate on the agate stone uninjured. (They alno discovcred the body of (lalahiad. son of ~ophoris, a considerable man among the Perfect Mssons and chief of the Levitas.) Galahad was the guardian of the Sacred Vault and took care of the burning lamp. I-us fortitude and magnanimity was not excelled by Hiram Abiff, who 400 years before lost his life rather than to reveal the Master’s Word. Gelaha preferred being buried under the ruins of the temple rather than to discover to the barbari~.ns by his coming out of the place where the greatest treasures were deposited. They then cried Bea-Makeh and Bawcarah; that is to say, “Thank God, we have found it.” This is the grand password and known by those who are guardians of the sacred treasure. It is difficult to express the excessive joy which they felt on the disco~erv of the Sacred Word, and, being fearful that the sacred characters should be found out, they defaced it and broke down the tables of gold, as they found it impossible to carry away the agate triangular stone. They therefore overset and broke the pedestal on which the Saertii name had been deposited.
They took from Galahad the robes of the enief of the Levites and retired, well satisfied with their success and determined that in future no trace of the Sacred name should be found but in the hearts cf good masons. From this determination we derive the custom of spelling the
most holy name of names, letter by letter, without giving a syllable. This word was used in the temple when it was rebuilt under the order of Cyrus and is observed
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by the Grand Elected to this day. Once a year the High Priest, in the middle of a number of brethren who had received the degree of Perfee. tion, formed themselves in a circle to spell the Sacred word and, at the same time the people without the temple were ordered to make a great noise lest they should
be overheard. By which means the habit of writing or pronouncing the great and awful name was lost, as they were uncertain of the number of letters which composed
it and of the real interpretation and sublime meaning or the great name of their God. It defines his essence, his existence, his unity, his goodness and his eternity in
one word. The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons who
had penetrated into the ruins of Enoch and who acquired the inestimable treasure left Judali and went into other countries. Some went into Egypt and Assyria and others crossed the Sea and went into Europe; many settled in England, Scotland and Ireland. They retained
their virtue and faith inviolable and afforded each other those fraternal acts of kindness which endear us to each other and gave to the world such striking proofs of wisdom, virtue and integrity that they became the admiration of the people among whom they lived. In consequence of which innumerable applications were made
to them for initiations. The good brethren chose from among them such as
were found famed for the exercise of virtue and morality and invited them to deplore the uncertainty of human events. They also laid before them the conduct of Solomon as a memorable example to shun vice and practice virtue in imitation of their beloved and much lamented
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Master Hiram Abiff. They exhorted them to invoke
Iigionu and benevolence which binds our members together in one band, in every clime and in every station of life. The great political revolutions which have so frequently changed the form of Empires have never affected our glorious profession. We possess all the principles and forms in their pristine purity. Let us, my brother, offer our prayers at the throne of mercy that we may never be divided. Amen.
the blessing of the adorable, I am, who was, and is, and
will be the eternal father of those who love him and obey his laws, many of them were initiated agreeable to their wishes. When the Princes of Europe united their forces to conquer the Holy Land and deliver Jerusalem from the hands of the barbarians who had it in possession
a number of the Grand Elect with other masons voluntarily offered their services in so holy an enterprise upon condition of being allowed the privilege of choosing their own Chief, which was granted them. They hoisted their own standard and departed. In the tumult and disorder of war they still retained and exercised the most virtuous principles, union and harmony reigned in their tents. They lived together without distinction of rank and acknowledged no general but in time of action. They gave mutual assistance to
each other and extended their charity to the indigent and distressed, even among their enemies. In action they were valiant and~enterprising and renicred such signal service to~ the confederate army that they received from them the highest honors. The Princes were surprised at the prodigies of valor which were performed by the masons, and when they
learned that their courage and zeal, their virtue, their disinterestedness and union were founded on the broad basis of the mystic institution they solicited the honor
of initiation. The rrinces promised a strict observance of all the laws and regulations of the Craft and were initiate into the masonic mysteries.
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Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden, what are you? Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, I am a Grand Elect, rerfect and Sublime Mason. There is nothing but what is revealed to me. Thrice Puissant-Where were you received? Senior Grand Warden—In a place where the rays of the Sun and Moon are not wanted. Thrice Puissant-Where is that place situated? Senior Grand Warden-Under the Sanctum Sanctolet. 155.—”The tendency of all true Masonry is towards relillon. If it make any progress. its ~rogrem is to that holy end. its ancient landmarks, its su lime ceremonIes. its profound .ymhola snd allegoriea.—aIl inculcating religious doctrine. commsndlng reilglons observance, and teschlng religious truth. and who csn deny that it is’ eminentlys religious instItutiOn? Hut, besides, Masonry is, in mU iii forms, thoroughly tinctured with a true devotional spirit, we oven and close our lodges wIth prayer; we invoke the biessing of the Most High upon all our labors; we demand of our neophytes a profession of trusting belief in the existence and the anperintending care of God; and we teach them to how with humility and reverence at his awtul name, while his holy law is widely opened upon our altars. Freemasonry is thus identified with religion; and although a man may be eminently relIgious without being a Mason. it is impussihie that a Mason can be irue and trusty~ to his Order unless he is a respecter of religion and an observer of religious principle. But the relIgion of Masonry is not sectarian, It admits men of every creed within its hospitable bosom, rejectIng none and approving none foe his peculIar faith. It is not Judaism. though there is nothing in it to offend 5 Jew; it is nut ChristianIty. but there is nothing In It repng• agut to the faIth of a Christian. its religion is that general one of astare and primitive revelstion.—hsnded down to us from some ancient and patrIarch si priesthood—in wbieh all men may agree and in whlcb no men can differ.”— Machey’s Eneylmlopinedi* of lreemaaofhl. jyticie Religion of Masonry.
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rum of the Grand Architect of the Universe, in a lodge and sacred place called the Sacred Vault. Thrice Puissant—Who introduced ~ou into that place? Senior Grand Wa,’den—Thic most wise and puissmtimt of all Kings. Thrice Puis.sant—Tn what way did you enter that place? Senior Grand Warden—Through a long narrow pimosage colnposed of nine arches. Thrice Puissant-How ~vereyou introduced into this lIoly Vault? Senior Grand Warden—By three knocks. Thrice Puissan 1—To what do these three knocks .illude? Senior Grand Warden—To thie age of toy apprentIceship and the number of Knights Elected who penetrated into the bowels of the Earth and took from thence the precious treasure of the Grand Fleet, Perfect and Sublime Masons. Thrice Puissant—What folhouetl these knocks? Senior Grand Warden—Five other knocks, which distinguished the age of the Fellow Craft and also the number which was completed by the arrival of Guibhim, Joabert and Stolkin with t~ie precious treasure which Divine Providence had ordained to be deposited in the Sacred Vault, where these three brethren found it; Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiram, King of Tyre, nlaking the nunmber. Thrice Puissant—What answer was made to these five knocks? Senior Grand Warden—Seven other knocks, which alluded to three things: First, the Age of a Master. Second, that there were chosen seven Expert Brethren to replace our Grand Master Hiram Abiff. Third, that Solomon was employed seven years In the construction of the temple. Thrice Puissant—What answer was made to the seven
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mark the age of a Perfect Master, and which, when represented by the numbers of the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublihe Masons, make eighty-one. Thrice Puissant—What followed these nine knocks? Senior arand Warden—The door of the ninth vault was opened and I entered into the most Holy and sacred
place of all the earth, at the same time I pronounced
Shibboleth,’5’ Shibboleth, Shibboleth, with an aspiration. 1’hi’ice Puissant—What is the meaning of that word? Senior Grand llo,’den—It is the first password and signifies plenty. Thrice Puissant—What dId you perceive on entering that holy place? Senior Grand Warden—The most brilliant light,
which dazzled my eyes and struck me with amazement. Thrice Puissant—What was the brilliant light that so affccttA you?
Senior Grand Warden—It was the Ineffable and real name of the Almighty and Grand Architect of the Universe, engraven on a triangular plate of gold upon an~ agate stone, which had been deposited there by one of Mote 156.—”Slgniiles an ear of corn and a stream or Sood of water. The name given to a test or criterion by which the ancient Jews sought to distinguish true persons or things from false The term originated thus After the battie gained by Jephtbsh over the Epbratmites, (Judges ill I the Gileadites. e(O,flanOE’d b3 the former, secured all t~3e passes of the river; and, on an F.phraimite attempting to cross, they asked him If he was of Ephraim. If he saId no. they bade him pronounce the word Shibboleth which the Ephraimites from inability to give the aspirate. gave Kibboleth. By this means he was detected as an enemy and imniedtfltelv slain In modern times this word has been adopted into ~olItienl end ether organleations as a pass or watchword. Macny a Encyolopsedla anal DiotiOnalT of I’reembsony, hz’tlole Ihib. holeth.
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the ancient patriarchs and was found by the Knights of the Royal Arch. Thrice Puissant—What do you call the Pedestal on which it was placed? Senior Grand Warden—The Pillar of Beauty. Thrice Puissant-In what manner did we receive this brilliant Delta? Senior Grand Wardeui—By the laborious search of the Ancient Knights of the Royal Arch, who discovered
this inestimable treasure among the ruins of the temple built by the Patriarch Enoch. Thrice Puissant—Explain the name to mel Senior Grand Warden—I cainnot. Thrice Puissant—How will you make me sensible that you know it?
Senior Grand Warden—Makobin and Machbenah’5’ were substituted in the place of it. Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of tltt-e words? Senior Grand Warden—Understanding, Knowledge and Wisdom. Thrice Puissant—To whom d~id God first communicate this Word? Senior Grand Warden-To Enoch before the flood,
by whose care it was preserved and transmitted to us, and also to Moses, when the Almighty showed hilnself to him on Mount Sinai. Thrice Puissant—What became of the word afterwards? Senior Grand Warden—It was effaced, and the Gold. en Plate on which it was engraved was melted down Note 1I7.—”Macbenac means in O.lic tbe blesseS son.’ This word the Stuart Masons applied to their idol, the Pretender, the son of Charim 1.”— Mackay’s EnayoiopsediA of lreeinssoazy, Atieie Mae.
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by the pious and zealous masons, after the destruction of the temple by Nebuzaradan, being fearful that the Divine Delta should fall into the hands of the impious, the sacred name would be profaned. Thrice Puissant-What have you perceived in the degree of Illustrious Knight? Senior Grand Warden-Twelve great lights. Thrice Puissant-What do they allude to? Senior Grand Warden—Twelve masters who were elected by Solomon to carry on the works of the temple after the death of Hiram Abiff and who commanded the twelve tribes of Israel. Thrice Puissant—What were the names of the twelve masters? Senior Grand Warden—Joabert, Stolkin, Terry, Morphey, Alycuber, Dorson, Herim, Berthemar, Tito, Zerbal, Benachard and Tabor, the first nine were those who were elected to search for the traitor Jubelum (Akirop), one of the assassins of Hiram Abiff. Thrice Puissant-Over what tribes had they the inspection? Senior Grand Warden—Joabert over the tribe of Judah. Benjamin Stolkin over the tribe of Terry over the tribe of Simeon, Morphey over the tribe of Ephraim, Alycuber over the tribe of Manasseh, Dorson over the tribe of Zebulun, Dan, Herim over the tribe of Berthemar over the tribe of Asher, Naphtahi, Tito over the tribe of Zerbal over the tribe of Reuben, Issach 5?, Benachard over the tribe of Gad. Tabor over thd tribe of
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These masters superintended the working of the tribes, paid them their wages, and rendered daily an account of their proceedings to Solomon. Thrice Puissant—Do the lights allude to anything else? Senior Grand Warden—To the twelve Princes of Solomon, and their governments, who furnished sustenance for the workmen and the King’s household. Thrice Puissant—What are their names and the countries over which they presided? Senior Grand Warden—Hur, the son of Hur, Intendant General in Mount Ephraim. Aminadab; son of Aminadab, in the region of Dor, he was married to Yaptha, Solomon’s daughter.
at.the east door of the temple? Senior Grand Ward,~n—It is the tomb wherein was placed the body of our much lamented and respectable vaster Hiram Abiff, which Solomon caused to be erected there as a testimony of the high esteem the brethren had for that Great Architect. Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the Balanco? Senior Grand Warden—It teaches us tc be just and equitable. Thrice Puissant-What signifies the Sword which the Grand Master of Ce~emonies held naked in his hand at your entrance? Senior Grand Warden—It is employed to defend our illustrious Grand Master and to punish those who shall depart from virtue, and shall be so perfidious as to reveal the secrets committed to their care, Solomon gave those who were deserving, the name of favorite, and constituted them Sublime Knights, decorated them with a large black ribbon, on which wis painted a flaming heart opposite their breast. He desired them not to travel without this mark of distinction, and instead of the poniard gave them a sword of justice and said: “As you have been the conductors of the work of the temple you are now to defend it with the sword.” Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the inflamed heart? Senior Grand Warden—The ardent charity we should have for each other. Thrice Puissant—What is your word in quality of Knight Elected? Senior Grand Warden—Beguel-Kol, and signifies by him or through him every thing was discovered, there are three pass-words necessary to be known, first Nekam which signifies vengeance, second Stolkin, the name of him who found the body of Hiram Abiff under the sprig of Acacia, third Joabert, who cut off the head of Abiram, (Akirop) and brought it to Solomon in compauy with
H..,ed, the son of Hosed, in Amboth and all Hoper, etc.
Baana, son of Basna, in Taawich Megiddo, etc. Deter, son of Dett=r,in Mahaz-Bethshemeshi, etc. Geber, son of Geber, in Ralnoth Gilead, etc. Ahinadab, son of Jctdo, in Mahanaim, etc. Ahimaaz, in Napittali, married Basmoth, Solomon’s daughter. Baana, son of Hushica, in Asheraloth, etc. Jehoshaphat, son of Pernah, in Issachar, etc. Shimei, son of Elah, in Benjamin, etc. Gebor, son or Un, in the country of Gilead, etc. Thrice Puissant—Why do the Secret Masters wear the ivory key? Senior Grand 1Vard~’n—To remind them that the Grand Elect, Perfect slid Sublime Masons are the only depositaries of Ancient Masonry. The secrets of which must be carefully locked up from the profane. Thrice Puissant—What is The meaning of the tomb
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his eight companions. Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the eight lights together and one by itself? Senior Grand Warden-The nine elected who went in search of Jubulum, (Akirop.) Thrice Puissant-Have you received any distinction since you have been made a Knight Elected? Senior Grand Warden-Solomon being willing to reward the trouble of the Elected, advanced them to the degree of Sublime Knights and joined to their chapter three zealous brethren to make 4heir number twelve. He showed them the riches of the temple and gave to each a golden key that they might be distinguished from the rest of the brethren, and gave them the name of Emeth or (Amar-Jah,) a word which signifies truth, or a true man on all occasions, he also gave them command of the
twelve tribes of Israel. Thrice Puissant—Have you penetrated any farther? Senior Grand Warden—Solomon soon after initiated
me into the degree of Grand Master Architect, to recompense me for my zeal, fervor and constancy, and in the end to lead me to the celestial throne. Thrice Puissant—What was the name of the stranger who acquainted Solomon with the place where the traitor Jubelum, (Akirop) had secreted himself? Senior Grand Warden—His name was Perignan”’ he Note SIS.—Peitamn. whe,, the Rio degrees were arat inyeoted. the legend referred ~o an unknown perioD, a tiller of the soil, to whom King Solomon warn indebted for the information which led to the diarosen of the craftamen who had committed the crime recorded in the third degree. Thu unknown person, at Orat designated aa •l’Inconnu. afterwarda recelsed the name of Perignan. and a degree between the ale .f nine and the eli ef iftean waa inatituted. which was called the Rio of Perignan.’ and, which became the auth degree of the Adornhiramite Rite. I am ntterli at a bee ca to the derisation or radical Ue*niog of the word. hut am inclined to the tbeor~ which glsca to this. as well aa to man7 other worda in the high degrees, a reference to the adherenta. or to the enemiea. of the eniled honac of Stnart. fnt wboee sake ceseral of theaedefreea were eatabliahed. ‘—Kanhe~’a Zuap’. elegmadla of lreemaaon,7, lenignan
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was a squarer and polisher of marble in the quarry of Gibelum, near Joppa, not far from the sprig of Acacia, when the body of Hiram Abiff was found, he was not enrolled among the workmen of the temple, but for this piece of essential service Solomon rewarded him and enrolled him among the workmen and changed his name to Guiblim because he continued to walk therein. Thrice Puissant—What signifies the three lights placed at the door of the Elected Knights? Senior Grand Warden—The three Fellow Crafts who assassinated our respectable Master Hiram Abiff. Thrice Puissant—What was their origin and what were their names? Senior Grand Warden—They were from the tribe of Dan, and sons of the same parent, they were called first Jubelum, (Akirop) and by some Aben, (Akirop,) the second was Jubelo, (Gravelot) and the youngest Jubela, (Guibs.) Thrice Puissant—What became of the two younger
brothers of Akirop? Senior Grand Warden—They fled to the country of Cheth. Thrice Puissant-How came they to be discovered in that country? Senior Grand Warden—By the assiduity of Bengabee Solomon’s Intendant in the country of Cheth. Thrice Puissant—What method did Solomon take to have them arrested? Senior Grand Warden—He demanded them of MWacha King of Cheth, to whom he wrote on that occasion. Thrice Puissant—Who was the bearer of Solomon’s letter to King Maseha? Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal, Captain of the King’s
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guards. Thrice Puissant-Did the King of Cheth hesitate to deliver them up? Senior Grand Warden—No, he gave a guard to escort the messengers an~ search with them. Thrice Puissant—Where were they found? Senior Grand Warden-]n a quarry called Bendaca. Thrice Puissant—Had not Solomon an intendant of that name? Senior Grand Warden—He had, one who was married to one of his daughters. Thrice Puissant—How came they to discover the two assassins? Senior Grand Warden-By the intelligence of a shepherd who showed them the place of their retreat. Thrice Puissant—Who were the persons who saw
them first?
Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal and Elignam, after
five day’s search. Thrice Puissant—In what manner were they carried up to Jerusalem?
Senior Grand Warden—In chains, with their hands fastened behind their backs. Thrice Puissant—What was the form of the chains? Senior Grand Warden—A square, a rule and a mallet, on which was engraved the kind of punishment they were to suffer at Jerusalem. Thrice Puissant—On what day did they arrive at
Jerusalem? Senior Grand Warden—On the fifteenth day of the month Nissan, anna 3775; which answers to the month
of April. Thrice Puissant—How long was it before the assassins were executed? Senior Grand Warden—One month. Thrice Puissant—How many masters did Solomon
send to search for them? Senior Grand Warden—There were fifteen, of which
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iinmber 1 was one. Thrice Puissant—Were there no other persons? Senior Grand Warden—There were troops which were sent as an escort. Thrice Puissant—What was done with the two assas-
sins when they arrived at Jerusalem? Senior Grand Warden—They were carried before Solomon to whom they confessed their guilt, after which they were confined one day and one night in a dungeon in the tower of Achizar, after which they were led to execution. Thrice Puissant—What kind of punishment did they receive?
Senior Grand Warden—At the hour of ten in the morning they were tied, naked, to two stakes, their arms and legs extended, their bodies were then opened from their necks to the middle and in that condition they were exposed to the heat of the sun for eight hours during which time the flies and other insects feasted on their blood and entrails. At length their cries were so lamentable that it drew tears from the executioner, who in commiseration of their suffering severed their heads from their bodies, which were given to the wild beasts for food and their heads were placed on the South and West pinnacles of the temple. The head of Akirop who was killed sometime before was placed on the East pinnacle, as a memento to the people to avoid such horrible crimes. Thrice Puissant—What are the words of the Elected
of Fifteen? Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal and Elignam; the first is the name of the Captain of lhe Guards who apprehended the assassins in the quarry, and the last God’s
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people~ Thrice Puissant-What hour was it when the two ruffians expired? Senior Grand Warden—At six in the evening vengeance was completed. Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the letters B. ~.N.~ which you see in the triangle of the Intimate Secretary? Senior Grand Warden—The alliance of Moses and Aaron, the same of Solomon with Hiram King of Tyre; they also signify alliance, promise and perfection. Thrice Puissant—What is the word of the Grand
Master Architect? Senior Grand Warden—Rab-Banain, (master builder.) Thrice Puissant-In what manner were you afterwards rewarded? Senior Grand Warden—Divine providence was graciously pleased to direct my researches into the boweh of the earth, wherein I discovered the brilliant Delta on which was engraved the sacred name of the Almighty. As a reward for my zeal Solomgn gave me the degree of guardian of the narrowapassage which leads to the Sacred Vault. Thrice Puissant-What quality did you receive on that occasion? Senior Grand Warden—That of Knight of the Royal
Arch. Thrice Puissant—By whom were you received? Senior Grand Warden—By Solomon King of Israel and Hiram-King of Tyre. As a reward for my labor they also gave the same rank to my two companions Joabert and Stolkin. Thrice Puissant-What was your name then?
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Senior Grand Warden-Guibelum. Thrice Puissant—What is the sign of the Knight of the Iloyal Arch? Senior Grand Warden—That of Admiration. Thrice Puissant—What is the Token and Word? Senior Grand Warden-Here it is, (he gives it), the word is Jabulum. Thrice Puissant—Are you a Grand Elect, Perfcct and Sublime Mason? Senior Grand Warden—I have penetrated into the most sacred place of all the earth. Thrice Puissant—What is the name of that place? Senior Grand lVarden—It was first called the Secret Vault, but after the Divine Delta was placed therein it was called the Sacred Vault. Thrice Puissant—Where do the Grand Elect, Perfect ~ndSublime Masons Work? Senior Grand Warden—Tn a holy place under ground. Tiwice Puissant—Where is that place situated? Senior Grand Warden—Under the Sanctum Sanetorum of the temple of Jerusalem. -
Thrice Puissant—What is the work of the Perfect
and Sublime Mason? Senior Grand Warden—Respectfully to preserve in our hearts the sacred mysteries of masonry. To sanctify those who have been initiated. To practice the purest
morality, and to aid and assist, to succor and defend our worthy brethren. Thrice Puissant—Where do the Perfect and Sublime Masons travel? Senior Grand Warden—Through all the Equators of the Globe to spread the knowledge pf their divine mysteries. Thrice Puissant—What does the Sacred Vault contam? Senior Grand Warden—The precious treasure of the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons. Thrice Puissant—What is that precious treasure?
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Senior Grand Warden—The Divine Delta on which is engraved the sacred name of the Almighty God. Thrice Puissant—Where is that precious treasure deposited? Senior Grand Warden—On a pedestal which is called the Pillar of Beauty. Thrice Puissant—What is your name? Senior Grand Wdrden—Jabulurn or Guibelum. Thrice Puissant—What does that name signify? Senior Grand Warden—Elected friend, favorite and zealous brother. Thrice Puissant—How many figurative signs have
the Grand Elect. Perfect and Sublime Masons? Senior Grand Warden—Nine, but three are most necessary to be known. Thrice Puissant—Give me thc principal ones? Senior Grand Warden—The first is cutting your belly across, in token of your obligation. The second is relative to the burning bush, and the third is silence, by putting the first two fingersof the right handonthelips. Thrice Puissant—Go on my brother and givo me the six others. ,S~’njor Grand Warden—The fourth is Admiration, (see page 323.) The fifth: interlace] all y~our fingers, hands raised over the head, palms out ward. (this sign serve to call a brother.) the sixth Admiration, (see page 323.) Answer, look over your ehoulders alternately. The
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The eighth: put your hands, shut, to your mouth, as if to pull out your tongue, then place it on your heart. The ninth, raise your hand as if ~u had a poniard in it to strike a brother’s forehead, to show that vengeance is eomp,leted. Thrice Puissant—What are the
Tokens? Senior Grand Warden—The principal ones are three in Eighth alan.
number: first, that of Intini a t e Secretary, B. .N. ..5.~. which signifies promises of a complete alliance (see p. 3’18) The second, Circumspection:
advance the hands reciprocally first to the master token, then to the wrist, then to the elbow, and the ~vord is Gabaon.’ Tbe third is Defiance, Resistance and Remembrance: advance reciprocally the hands as in the fourth degree, drawToken of Circumspectiuii Note ib9.—’Gabaon. A signiSant word in the high degrees Oliver ansa. (Landm., I. 335.) In philosophical Masonry, heaven, or. more correctly speaking. the third heaven. is denominated Mount Gahaco. which is feigned to he aecesaible only hy the seven degrees that rem. muses the binding staircase These are the degrees terminating in the Royal Arch.’ Gabeon is (leSned to signify a high lace. • it is the ~epiuagint nod viilgate form of Gshaon, which was Ii~e city in which the tehernecle was stationed during the reigns of David and Solomon. The word means a city built on a bill. ajid is referred to in 2 CbCon I. 3. ~5oSolomon. and all the congregation wiih him, went to the high piaco that was at Giheon: fur there was the tahernacle ot the con~ gregation of God.’ in a ritual of the middle ci the inst century. it is sold that Osbanon Is the name of a Ilaster Mason. —Kankey’s Enoyolopaeiia. haticle Gabaca.
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to each other three times; then place the left hand on th~ brother’s back, then on his neck as if to raise him. Thrice Puissant-What are the
pass-words? Senior Grand Warden-There are three principal ones: the first is Shibboleth three times with an aspiration. The second is ElHanan. The third is most essential to be known and is Bes-Makeh, ~amearah, which is interpreted “thank God we have found it.” Token or Reeistane~ ~od Thrice Puissant—Wliat are the eov~reff words? Senior Grand Warden—There are~tF~ee: The first is Guiblim or Jabuluni. The second is Makobim, which interpreted; “That’s he! He is dead !“ The third is Adonai, Supreme lord of all, Thrice Puissant—Give me the word? Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, I cannot, I am riot able to pronounce it Machbenah and Mah-hahbone, were substituted in~ its place. You know what I mean, Adonsi is the last covered word for this mysterious one. Thrice Puissant—How do you enter into a lodge of Perfection?
Senior Grand Warden—With firmness and constancy in my heart. Thrice Puissant-Why do you always stand in a lodge of Perfection in a posture of surprise? Senior Grand Warden—In allusion to Moses who was obliged to stand in that position when he received the table of tne laws from the Almighty, and also the two
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Xings, Solomon and Hiram, who were seized with sur.prise. when they beheld the sacred name on the Goldcn Plate which was brought to them by Guibelum, Joabert and Stolkin.
Thrice Puissant-What signifies the sign of cutting your belly. Senior Grand Warden—An allusion to the wounds of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff. Thrice Puissant-What are the tools of a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason? Senior Grand Warden—A shovel, Crow and Pick-axe. Thrice Puissant—What use do they make of them? Senior Grand Warden—They served to discover and raise the square stone on the top of the arches which were built by Enoch and also to break the pedestal on which the treasure was deposited when the temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and to prevent the sacred name of names from falling into the hands of the profane. They melted down the plat~ and determined never to write, engrave or pronounce it, but to treasure it in their hearts. Thrice Puissant—When the Grand Elect came to the Vault did they find anything besides the pillar of
Beauty? Senior Grand Warden—Yes, they found the body of Galsad. Thrice Puissant-Who was Galaad? Senior Grand Warden-He was the son of Sophoris, a considerable man among the Perfect Masons, and Chief of the Levites, Galaad was the guardian of the Sacred Vault, and to him was entrusted the care of the lamp which burnt without ceasing in that Sacred and Holy place. His fortitude and x~aguanimity were not ex•
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celled by Hiram Abiff, who 400 years before lost his life rather than reveal the secrets of a Master Maaon. So Galaad preferred being buried under the ruins rather than to discover to the barbarians by his coming out of the place where the greatest of treasures were deposited. Thrice Puissant—What did the Grand Elect do ~with the body of this worthy chief? Senior Grand Warden—They wished to follow the example of Solomon, by burying him with every masonic honor and then to erect a superb monument to his memory, and perpetuate to future generations, the heroic sacrifice he had made of himself to preserve the inestimable treasure of the Sacred Vault of which he was the faithful keeper, but ‘the distress in which the brethren were involved by the capture of Jerusalem prevented it. They took away his habit, consisting of his Tiara and a robe of fine linen which they burnt, and they interred his body in the ruins of the Sacred Vault under the Pillar of Beauty. Thrice Puissant—Hour did Solomon live after the dedication of the temple? Senior Grand Warden—This ~vise king, this king so virtuous whom God had appointed to rule over the children of Isracl became deaf to the voice of the Lord, an~l was strangely irregular in his conduct. Proud of having erected an edifice to his maker ~nd intoxicated with his power he plunged into all rnanncr of licentiousness and debauchery and profaned the temple of the Most High
by offering incense to the idol Moloch. which only should
have been offered to the living (lod. These crimes penetrated deeply into the hearts of the good masons, the greater part of whom voluntarily exiled themselves from their country, that they micht not be spectators of the punishment which they feared the Almighty would inflict upon Jerusalem. They accordingly left Judei and went into foreign countries among strangers. Thrice Puissant—How many years did Solomon reign?
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Senior Grand Warden—Forty years, and died when he was ninety-four, and was buried in Jerusalem. Thrice Puissant-Who was king of Jerusalem after 8olomon? Senior Grand Warden—Rehoboam, his son. Thrice Puissant-Did anything remarkable happen in his reign? Senior Grand Warden-God permitted the kingdom of Israel to be divided as a punishment for the sins of the people of Jerusalem as had been predicted by the prophets. Thrice Puissant—Relate to me the punishment of the
kingdom of Judah. Senior Grand Warden—When the crimes of the peepie had become insufferably great, God permitted Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon to make war upon them, who following the predictions of the prophets
sent Nebuzaradan his general, who reduced all Judes witn fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusalem and reduced the temple of the living God to a heap of ruins. The conquerors carried with them as captives into Babylon, Zedekiah and all his people, also all the ‘~
ornaments and treasures of the temple. This happened 470 years, 6 months and 10 days after its dedication. The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons who were at Jeruuslem at this time exerted themselves with great bra,Nate 150.—”Zedeklaia. & personage in some of the high deg~ees. wiume meianchoi tate is described in the Second Book of Kings and in the rophecies of Jetemlah. He was the twentieth and last king of Judd. when Nehuchadnesgar had in his second siege of Jeruaakm depesed Jehelachin. whom be carried as a csptlye to Babylon. he placed Sedekiab on the throne in his stead. By this act’ Zedeklab becume trib utawy tn the king of the ebaidees, who ezacted from hIm a solemnseth of Ideilty and obedlenee. Th’n oath he obsersed no longer than tIll an opportunIty occurred of YloIating It. in the language of the author of the Books of chronicles, ~he rebelled agaInst King Nebuchad. mar. who had made hIm swear by Ood.~ This course soon brought down upon hIm the yengeance of the Ofeuded monarch, who inyaded the land of Judah with an Immense gg~. ‘—Eaeknga Enqolope.edia at 1seeinasonz~, Article 5s4.kish.
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ery and fortitude in its defence, but without effect, for soon beholding the temple of God falling into one gentiral heap of ruina~, they directed their whole attention to the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury and the Golden Plate from being discovered. For this purpose a party of them fought their way into the Sacred Vault where they found the golden plate on the agate stone uninjured. Their joy was excessive on this occasion. They all cried out Bes-Makeb Bamesrah, that is, “thank God we have found it.” Thrice Puissant—What did they do after this discovery? Senior Grand Warden—They retired contented, resolving that in future they would never trust this holy name to be written or engraved, but to preserve it faith-
fully in their hea~rts and that their descendants should only know it by tradition, from thence arose the custom of pronouncing the letters only, without joining the syllables which was observed afterward in the temple which was built by Cyrus. Thrice Puissant—How long did the captivity of the brethren continue a fter the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar? Senior Grand Warden—The first captivity was seventy years as was predicted by the prophet Jeremiah. Thrice Puissant—How did the Israelites behave in
Babylon during their captivity? Senior Grand Warden—They repented of the crimes of which they were guilty and by example of the Grand .Elect, who were with them, they worshiped the only
true and living God as the prophets had before written Thrice Puissant—Who were those prophets? Senior Grand Warden—Habalckuk, Zechariah, Hag.
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gal and Malachi. Thrice Puissant-Who was it gave liberty to the Iaraelites and permitted them to return to their own country?
Senior Grand Warden-Cyrus,”’ king of Persia, who was the conqueror of all the East. He not only gave permission to the Israelites to return to their own country and rebuild the city of Jerusalem, but also presented them all the sacred vessels which had belonged to the temple, and which had been preserved by the care of Mithridates, the second treasurer. Thrice Puissant-Where do the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons work this day? Senior Grand Warden—In a place chosen to re-estab lish the edific&which had been ruined by the traitors. Thrice Puissant-What are the wages of our success? Senior Grand Warden—Virtue, which all may obtain who desire it. Thrice Puissant-What recompense do you expect? Senior Grand Warden—The destruction of vice and the knowledge and love of my brethren. Thrice Puissant-What do you find in the place which has been chosen? Senior Grand Warden—Dead Bones, Blood and a Burning Lamp. Thrice Puissant-What did you do with the lamp? Note i61.—”I’he personal relation, to Gad’s people, which were sustained by this might: conqueror. are fnIl of masonic Interest. The JewIsh nation had been broken up by Nebuchadnessar Ifty years before his conning. and the remnant, not destroyed, carried away to Dahylon. where Cyrus found them. Be became to them 5 generous liberator and a Just guardian of theIr rights. Nearly 250 years before that perIod. the h Iseish had sunounced hIm by mae as ‘the Shqbsrd of the Lord,’ who should perform slI Gods pleasnee and rehalld the city and temple.—Imlah ill,. This he hsstened to do. snd only two years attN his conqneet of Bahylon. issned his celebrated decree, which was. Ia effect. the re-establIshment of the JewIsh ustlon. ‘—Eawls’a Nasunle
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Senior Grand Warden— I put it out. Thrice Puissant-Then you were in darkness? Senior Grand Warden—No, Thrice Puissant, I had no aecasion for lamp or light, I was enlightened by ibo effulgence of the most brilliant and Divine Delts. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
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To be taken by e,ery broiher when adranced to the degree ot Grand Elect. Perfect aud 5ubimme Masou.
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In presence of the Grand Architect of the Univerae, and of this respectable assembly of Freemasons, I solemnly promise to obey the general regulations of the
Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden from whence came you? Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, from Judea. Thrice Puissant-What did you bring from thence? Senior Grand Warden—The precious treasure of the Grand Elect engraven upon my heart, which I will give you. Thrice Puissant-Approach my brother, (the Senior Warden leaves his seat and approaches the Thrice Puissant with the sign of admiration and whispers in his ear the ineffable word, letter by letter.) Thrice Puissant—(Strikes three and says,) brethren will please form the chain around the altar, (all kneel on left knee and rorm with hands above their heads,) the Thrice Pirissant then whispers in the ear of the brother next to him the ineffable word, that brother gives it to the next and so on until it reaches the Thrice Puissant again. Thrice Puissant—My dear brethren, the word which
Supreme Grand Council for the jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere, and to acknowledge said Supreme Grand Council as the only authority of the Scotch Rite in said jurisdiction, and I further promise and swear that I will have no intercourse as a mason of said Rite with any masonic body of masons pretending to be subject to any masonic authority of said Rite in this jurisdiction other than said Supreme Grand Council of which the I1lu~trious brothcr is now Sop. ereign Grand Commander. So help me God.
was lost is found, engraved in the deepest part of our
hearts, let us retire in the dark and purify our hearts from all uncleanliness. Let us pray. CLOSING PRAYER.
Direct our steps, Oh Adonsi, Supreme Lord and Master of the Universe, grant that we may shun the paths of the wicked and not fall into the pit which our enemies have made for us, that the effulgenoe of divine wis-
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dom may enlighten us, that we may possess the means of being charitable by the gifts of this providence, and grant oh Lord that we may not be unsuccessful pur labor; blesa and sanctify our works that we may kii jw and acknowledge(thy power and strength and grant that the virtue which masonry teacheth may be firmly engrafted in our hearts. And the honor and glory shall be ascribed to thy most holy and mighty name. Amen. (All now take their places.) Thrice Pu~ssant—Brother Senior Grand Warden, what’s the clock? Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant it is midnight. Thrice Puiwznt—Why do you say it is midnight?. Senior Grand Warden—Because after labor comes rest and night is the time of iniquity. Thrsce Puissant—What brought you here? Senior Grand Warden—The desire of practicing in common with my brethren the arts of virtue, justice and charity. Thrice Puinant—What is it that atiracts you here? Senior Grand Warden—The brilliant and adorable Delta. Thrice Puissant—How comes the Delta so often mentioned in this degree? Senior Grand Warden—To learn the power, goodness, mercy and majesty of the Grand Architect of the Universe, the God of Heaven and Earth, the Eternal Father of nature. Thrice Puissant—What do you carry from hence? Senior Grand Warden—A great deiire of doing good. Thrice Puissant—What can a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason desire more when he is come to the
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Sublime Degree of Perfection? Bel&ior Grand Warden—The Eternal, “Beatitude” for which he will ever sigh without ceasing, and which he can only acquire by his good works. Thrice pui.uant~~Brother Senior and Junior Grand Wardens, acquaint the brethren that I am going to close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numbers, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Senior Grand Warden—Breth~n you will please take notice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Muter i~ going to close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numben 3, 5, 7 and 9. Junior Grand Warden—Brethren you will please take jwt.ice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numbers 3, 5, 7 and 9. Thrice Puiuant~~(KflOCks three; 000. All rise.) S~giiior WardeR~(Kflocks three; 000.) Junior Warden~—(K~flocks three; 000. All make the sign of Admiration.) Thrice puia&znt~(XflOcks live; 00000.) 8enior Warden— (Knocks five; 00000.) Junior Warden~-~(KY1ocks five; 00000. All make the uign of Admiration.) Thrice pui.asant~—(KnoCks seven; 0000000.) Seiiior Warden~~-(KnOCks seven; 0000000.) Junior Warden—(Knocks seven; 0000000. All make the sign of Admiration.) Thrice Puj.,saiii—(KnOCks nine; 000000000.) Se~iior Warden~-(KnockS nine; 000000000.) Junior Warden~—(KnOcks nine; 000000000. All make the sign of Admiration.) Thrice Puiueant—To the glory of the Grand Archi-
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tect of the Umveree and under the auspices of the Sn. preme Grand Council of the Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the 33d degree for the northern jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere in the Valley of New York, and by virtue of ~heauthority on me conferred by. this Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, I declare its works thereof now closed. Brothers Senior and Junior Grand Wardens, officers and brethren of this 8ublime Grand lodge of Perfection, I admonish you to retire in peace, to practice virtue and religion and to always live as becomes those who live in the immediate presence of the Grand Architect of Ihe Universe, and may God bless our country and our arms. Thrice Puissant—Together brethren, (all clap, 3, 5, 7 and 9.)
STATUTES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALL RuouI~An Lon~rn ov PERFECTION TRANSMITTED BY THE SOVEREIGN GRAND COtfl~CIL or SUBLIME PRINOES OF TEE ROYAl SECRET, AT Bm~uN, P&nis AND Bonmux. ARTICLE 1ST.
No lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masters can proceed to work by electing officers or receiving candidates unless warranted by a Charter from the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret or from a Grand Inspector of the order or his Deputy, duly signed and sealed, wilhout which they are to be regarded as irregular, and the work declared null. ARTICLE 2ND.
No lodge or Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mainters can correspond with any other such lodge, except such as are reported by the Secretary General of the Grand Council to the Grand luspector or his Deputy, and by him communicated. ARTICLE 3D.
Whenever a lodge of Perfection is made acquainted with the existence of another lodge of Perfection not included in the list furnished itself by the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, it should at once advise the Grand Inspector or his Deputy thereof, that it may be made known to the Grand CounciL
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If any brethren assemble irregularly for the purpose of initiating persons into this degree, they should be reprimanded, and no mason of a regular lodge can recognize or visit Ihem on pain of sneh penalties as the laws of the lodges of Perfeetion shall prescribe. ARTICLE 5TH.
If a Royal lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masters should expel one of its members for misconduct, information thereof must forthwith be given to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, that he may be able to notify thereof the-other regular lodges and the Grand Council. If a regular lodge should violate the laws miposed upon it by the solemn provisions of our secret constitutions or should refuse to submit and to ask forgiveness in the most humble manner by a petition
signed by all the members eonfessing their fault, showing at the same time that they have eeased to work until sueh time as it shall please the Grand Couneil of the Sublime Prinees to relieve them from interdietion, to
pardon them, and receive them again into favor. ARTICLE 6TH.
Any new lodge that may eome into possession of new degrees, relating to the order in general should immediately make the same known to the Grand Inspector
or his Deputy. ARTICLE 7TH.
The present statutesand regulations must be read to every brother when he takes the degree of Royal Arch. He must promise punctually to obey them, and at all times to recognize the Knights of the East, Princes of Jerusalem, Knights of the East and West, Knight~ of
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the White Eagle, Knights Rose Croix, Patriarchs Noachite, Knights of the Royal Axe, Grand Pontils, Knights Princes Adept, Knights of the White and Black Eagle, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret and the Grand Inspectors and their Deputies as his chiefs, whom he must promise to respect and their Council te. follow in whatever they direct. He must also promise to increase in zeal, fervor and constancy for the order, to the end that he may one day attain to the degrec of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and to be submissive and obedient to the statutes and regulations heretofore made, or that may hereafter be made by the Sovereign Princes, chief of the order of masonry, and that he will pay them all the honors to which they are entitled and to add more force to such obligation, he must sign a submission in due form. ARTICLE 8TH.
Every lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons should have nine officers, including whom the number of members should not exceed twenty-seven. The Thrice Puissant is not counted among the nine officers. He represents Solomon. Hiram King of Tyre sits on his right, in the absence of the Grand Inspector or his Deputy. First—The Qrand Keeper of Seals, representing Galahad, son of Sophonia chief of the Levites, who sits on the left of the Thrice Puissant. Second—The Grand Treasurer, representing Guibumm, the confidant of Solomon, who sits in front of the table of sLew-bread. Third—The Grand Orator, representing Abdamon, who explained to Solomon many enigmas and the
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hieroglyphics engraven on the pieces of marble found in the ancient ruins of Enoch on the mountain of Aceldema”’ who sits near the Altar of Incense in the North. Fourth—The Grand Secretarij, representing Joabert, the favorite of the two allied kings who sita in the South opposite the altar of incense. Fifth—The Senior Grand Warden, representing Adoniram, son of Abda, Prince Harodim of Labanus who after the death of Hiram Abiff was inspector of the laborers on Mount Libamis and the first of the seven secret masters, who sits in the West. Sixth—The Junior Grand Warden, representing Mahabon, the most zealous master of his time, and a great friend of Hiram Abiff, who sits in the West, on the left
of the Senior Grand Warden. Sea,enth—The Grand Master of Ceremonies, representing Stolkin, one of the three who discovered the nine arches and the Delta, who sits in the North. Eighth—The Captain of the Guards, representing Bendia or Zerbal, who held that office during the allianee of the two kings and who sits between the two Grand Wardens. Ninth—One Tyler or two, that the lodge may be well guarded. ARTICLE 9TH.
The Thrice Puissant and other officers are to be elected every third year. No one but a Prince of Jerusalem can be elected to preside. The election is to be held on Note IU.—’Ao.ldsma. From the 5yro.Cbaldsic. meaning ash of blood. so called beraume it was purchased with the blood-money which was paid to Judas tacariot for betraying his Lord. it is situated on the slope of ibe bills beyond the vs hey of Hinnom and to ihe south of Mount Zion. The earth there was believed. hy earl, writers, to have poaseased a corrosive quality, by means of which bodies deijoalted in it were quickly consumed; and hence it was uaed by the Crusaders. then by the Knight. Hoapitailers. and afterward, by the Armenians. a. a place of aepulture. and the Empreas Helen is said to have built a charnel-house in its midst. Dr. Robinaun (Ulbileal Rasesrobes. I.. ~ . 524.) says that the field is not now marked hv any boundary to di.. ingulab it from tbe rest of the field. and the former charnel-house is now n ruin. The field of Aceldama is referred to in the ritual of the Kn%bts Templars. ‘—Mackey’s Eucyolopasdia of Freamasom. Article am’.
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the 3d day of the 12th month Adar, which answers to the 21st day of February, that memorable day of the year 2995, when the precious treasure was found by three zealous master masons under the ruins of our ancient patri.rch Enoch. The mode of electing either of the officers or a candidate depends on the particular laws of the lodge, but when the officers have been elected they must take an obligation to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, that they will perform the duties of their office with zeal, constancy, fervor and affection towards their brethren. ARTICLE 10TH. Everything like party organization and cabal is
absolutely prohibited in conneetion with the election of officers, on pain of.expulsion and erasure of membership. ARTICLE 11TH.
All the brethren must, in open lodge, wear all their decorations. A brother who eni ers a lodge without his ornaments or the insignia of some higher degree shall lose his right to vote at that meeting, and pay into the treasury such fine as the lodge shall impose. ARTICLE 12TH.
Lodges of Perfection are to be held on specified days
and at fixed hours, whereof the brothers shall have due and regular notice from the Secretaiy, in order that if business of importance prevents any brother from attending he may a~¶vise the Secretary thereof by letter on the morning of the day of meeting, whereof the Secretary shall inform the lodge in the evening. This the brethren shall not omit, under such penalties as the Thrice Puissant and the lodge may determine. ARTTCLE 13TH.
All loages of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Ma-
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sons mi~st mutually visit each other, by deputations a, correspondence, as frequently as possible and communi.. cats to each other whatever light they may acquire.
their plaees will be filled by sueh brethren higher in degree as the president shall appoint and so with all other offleers.
ARTICLE 14TH. The Grand Secretary shall issue to every brother who
is about to travel, a certificate signed by the Thrice Puissan., the Wardens and the Grand Keeper of the Seals, who shall there affix the seal of the lodge and counlersigned by the Grand Secretary. The signature of the brother to wftom it is granted must appear in the margin. ARTICLE 15TH.
The Grand Elect, ‘Perfect and Sublime Masons may admit to the degree of Perfection such brethren as are
worthy thereof, and who have held offlee in symbolic lodges, and to all the degrees that precede that of Perfection to wit: Seeret Master, Perfect Master, Confidential Seeretary, Provost and Judge,~Intendant of the Buildings, Elect of the Nine, Elect of the Fifteen, Illustrious Knight, Grand Niaster Arehiteet and Knight of the Royal Arch. The Thriee Puissant may confer three degrees at one and the same time on each brother by way of reward for zealous serviec, and may at last eonfer the degree of Grand Elect, Perfeet and Sublime Mason when the proper time has elapsed. ARTICLE 16TH.
Besides the feast days of the 24th of June and 27th of December, the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons, must every year, on the 5th of October, celebrate the rebuilding of the first temple of the Lord. The Prince ‘who is oldest and highest in degree, will preside, and if the two Wardens be of inferior degree,
ARTICLE 17Th.
All matters whatever must be proposed by a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason and the members will vote in order commencing with the youngest, and whenever a candidate is proposed to the lodge it must be shown that he respects and is attached to his religion, that he is a person of true probity and discretion, and that he has given proofs of his zeal, fervor and constancy for the order and his brethren. ARTICLE 18TH.
When the Wardens are n,otified by the Thrice Puissant of his intention to hold a lodge, they must attend and with all their might advance the prosperity of the lodge. The Master of Ceremonies must also be notified in advanee that he may prepare the hail. ARTICLE 19TH.
The Grand Keeper of the Seals, will have the Seals ready for reeeptions, set everything in order, and affix the seals to all eertifieates or other documents signed by the officers of the lodge. ARTICLE 20TH. The Grand Orator will deliver a discourse at each reeeption (initiation) enlarging therein upon the excellence of the order. He will instruct the new brethren, ex-
plain to them the mysteries and exhort them not to slacken in their zeal, fervor and constancy, that they may attain to the degree of Grand Elect Perfect, and Sublime Mason. If he has noticed any indiscretions on the part of any brethren or any dispute aipong them, he
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will advise the lodge thereof, that it may endeavor to
bring about a reconciliation.
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ARTICLE 2-ITII.
The Captain of the Guard ~cesthat the Tyler does
ARTICLE 21ST. The Grand Treasurer will safely keep all funds devoted to eharitabte purposes, as well as moneys received for receptions. He will keep a regular book of aeeounts, at all times ready to be examined by the lodge, and as eharity is an indispensable duty among masons, the brethren should vol ontarily contribute to the fund for that purpose, eaeh according to his means. ARTICLE
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The Grand Seeretary will keep a reeord of all the tra.nsaetions of the lodge, plainly written, and always ready to be inspected by the lodge, the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, he will dispateh all orders issued by the Thrice Puissant within such time that they may reaeh their destination in due season. He must prepare all requisitions that are to be transmitted to the lodge to the Grand Council, the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, or into foreign eonntries and li’e will take the greatest possible care to keep the business of his offlee in perfect
order. AETICLE 23iw.
The Master of Ceremonies must repair to the temple in due season so as to have everything ready that the work may not be delayed. He is always one of the exsminers of visiting brethren and introduces them according to their degrees, consequently he ought to be at
all points instructed in the several degrees and possess the confidence of the lodge.
his duty, and it is his business to see the lodge well tyled. He reecives all visitors wearing his hat and sword in hand, unless they are Princes masons in whose presenee lie is uncovered. lie will advise the ‘rhricc Puissant whenever a visitor desires to be admitted, will assist in examining him, and will in all eases preeede the brethren in the eerernonie~ of instruetion. When he reports that the visitor is a Prince mason, sueh visitor will be received with all the hionor~,, the brethren forming the vault of steel with their swords, and the Grand Master of Ceremonies eondueting him to the foot of the throne and afterwards to an elevated seat near the Thrice Puissant. ARTICLE 25Th. If any lodge is for good cause dissolved or teniporarilv interdieted, the ofijeers thereof must deposit the thartcr, regulations and statutes, and all the papers of the lodge with the Grand (ouneil if there be one, and if not with the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, where they will remain until the lodge is allowed to resume labor, and if the members of sueh lodge ~.liouldnot submit to the decision of the Grand Council, their disobedienee with their names, degrees and eivil eharaeters, are to be notified in writing to all the recognized lodges in the two Hemispheres, that they may incur the contempt of all mas~as. May the Grand Architect of the Universe avert so great a misfortune and inspire us to seleet good men for our brethren, that thereby the order may attain Perfeetion-
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ARTICLE 26TH.
fore closing any lodge ineuleate that duty on the brethren in the usual manner and form. ARTICLE 32 ~D.
If any member of the lodge that has been dissolved by the Grand Council, shows that body by petition, that he is innocent, he shall be restored to favor and affiliated with another lodge. ARTICLE 27TH.
Nothing that is done in a lodge should be made known oat of the lodge, except to a member of the same, .under such penalty as the lodge shall inflict. ARTICLE 28TH.
No visitor can be admitted until the lodge is opened, nor until he has been scrupulously examined by two well informed brethren and he shall take his obligation also unless more than one member of the lodge shall state that they have seen him sit in a rgularly constituted lodge of at least the degree of that which he seeks to visit. ARTICLE 29TH.
Every lodge may have two Tylers, whose good character should be known. They will be clothed at the expense of the lodge and wear the proper jewel at the button hole of their coats. ARTICLE 30TH.
The Knights and Prinees Masons being the great lights of the lodge, all complaints against them shall be made in writing and presented at the next lodge meeting. The lodge shall hear and decide and if a party things himself aggrieved he may appeal to the Grand Council which shall determine in the last resort. ARTICLE 31ST.
Secrecy as to the mysteries being of indispensable obligatioD the Thrice Puissant Grand Master shall be-
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If a member be siek, any member knowing thereof must forthwith inform the Thrice Puissant in order that he may receive the neeessary attention, and the Brother Hospitaller must visit him to see that he is properly
cared for. ARTICLE 33nn.
When a brother dies, all the brethren are obliged to attend his funeral in the usual manner. ARTICLE 34TH.
If a brother meet with misfortunes, it is the duty of every brother to visit him. ARTICLE 35TH.
If the Thrice Puissant be not present at a lodge meeting, for one hour after the hour fixed for opening, and there be five brethren present the oldest offleer will for the time take the throne and proeced regularly with the work, provided the Grand Inspeetor and his Deputy are absent, but if either of them be present, he shall he invited to take the throne, with all the honors, the same honors being paid the Deputy as to the Inspector in the absence of the latter. ARTICLE 36TH.
To secure regularity in the lodge the Thrice Pujasant Master and the Grand Inspector or his Deputy must keep a list of all the members of the lodge, showing the degree and eivil eharaeter of each, to be laid before the Grand Couneil and transmitled to all the regular lodges. They will also advise the Grand Tnspector or his Deputy of every matter of interest communicated to the lodge. ARTICLE 37TH.
If the members of any lodge deem it necessary to make any alterations in the present constitotiona and
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regulations, that ean only be done by petition in writing presented to the lodge prior to the annual feast. If the members, upon mature consideration of the matter proposed, find nothing therein contrary to said statutes and regulations, the proposition in writing shall be transmitted to the Grand Couneil of the Prinees, and if they approve it, it shall be sent to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy for the Distriet, who shall decide thereon, none of our aneient customs, obligations or eeremonies being changed, nor the force of our present eonstitutions and regulations diminished, on pain of interdiction.. Whereof all lodges of Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons and of Ancient Masons, regularly estabI ished under our protection shall so govern and direct themselves for the future, in every place in the world where our order is established, being under the direction of the Inspector, his Deputy or the Princes Masons, individually or in Grand Council if there be one; whereto to give force and actuality, we have resolved to create Inspeetors and Deputy Inspectors who shall travel by land and sea, to take note and observe in all lodges regularly constituted. A eopy of whieh laws and regulations shall be delivered to our aforesaid Delegates, Deputy Inspectors with authentic Patents and Powers in due form that they may be recognized and duly empowered in the exereise of their,funetions. So decreed by our Chiefs and Worthy Protectors in lawful assembly of true science and ample power as representatives of the Sovereign of Sovereigns.
Done at the Grand Orient of Paris, Berlin and Bordeaux, in a holy plaee under the Celestial Vault, nesr the B. ~ the 25th day of the 7th month of the yeer
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1762, and transmitted to the very Illustrious and ver~~ Puissant Prince Stephen Morin, Grand Inspector of all the regular lodges in the new world. At the Grand Orient of Berlin under the Celestial Vault, the day and year above mentioned and certified by us, Grand Inspectors General and Deputies, the 22nd of December, 1768. [Signed.]
Etrenne Morin. Mose.s Cohen. Spitzer. Hyman Isaac Long.
TITLES FIT FOR THE DIALECT OF A MAD HOUSE.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS FOURTEENTH
DEGREE,
OR GRAND ELECT PERFECT AND
SUBLIME MA.SoN. Lcd em Diamolved b7 the Lutheran Retormation—TItie, Fit for the Dialect of a Mad.houae—Traveatiea Chriatlan Ordluancem—The Cata. comba of a New worahlp—inidellti It. Mother, Rebellion it~ Cradle— Conjuring and Legerdernialn—Satan SW. their Heart. with Uea.
That this was one of the Ram.sa~ degrees is proved by its name in France :-‘—“Grand Scotch Mason of perfection, of the Vault of Jas. VI.’, Mackey, (Note 141) admits this name to be proof that it was invented and used by Jesuits to destroy Protestantiam and restore the Stuarta; (see Art’s Lodge and Rite of Perfection,) but framed by Ramsay in the Jesuits’ College at Paris. At first the rite was fourteen degrees. Afterward it was enlarged by Dc Bonneville to twenty-five, (1754,) in the same college. Then, four years later, it was merged
in “The Council of Emperors, 1758; and sent by them to the United States, by the Jew, Morin;—inereased in Charleston, S. C., in 1881, to 330, where it stands now. England was Protestant.—The German Lodges, Rebold says, p. 54, were nearly all “dissolved” by the. Lutheran. Reformation. Germany has a Protestant Emperor; England a Protestant government; and France, unhappy France, fell between the upper and nether millstones of a corrupt church and infidel lodges, whose Grand Orient has since voted to strike from its Ritual the words: “The existence of God, and the im-
mortality of man!” After the flight of the Stuarts in
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1688 to the Jesuits’ College in Paris, and their recognition by the French King, France became the breeder of volcanoes for all Europe, and, that America should receive the Freemasonry which now covers the United States, from such a source, is as if Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, both of whom were Masons, had formed a system of secrat lodges to “elevate mankind,” and Europe had received and adopted them! The very terms and titles of this degree—”Grand, Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason,” are fit for the dialect of a mad house; and they recall to mind the Scriptare: “Madne.ss is in their hearta while they live, and after that they go to the dead.” Bat there is a method in this madness. It makes money like Mormonism and Popery. And, like literal madness in rabid animals, its venomous virus produces a zeal of proselytism, like the restless longing of hydrophobia to bite itself into whatever living thing is free from it. And this degree reveals the secret of this terrible moral enemic. We assume that Christianity, the Bible of the Christian nations, is true, and that the vagaries of the heathen tribes is untrue. And, if so, then that which attempts the entire subversion of the Christian system, is not a local, particular evil, like robbery or fraud, but a fundamental, and universal one; and this total subversion is precisely what is attempted by ‘this degree. Thus. 1. It acorns and scoffs at the God of the Bible. We read in its Ritual: “The candidate looks for the last time on the Solomonian school.” “On one side, and in the past, appears the formidable God of by-gone ~erations; his name is inscribed on the Breast-plate of thp High Priest of the Jews. On the other side, and far in the future, the Eternal, Good, Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Equitable an& ever consoling Father of Mankind, whose titles are written with the blood of that Sublime Teacher, who first of all proclaimed the existence of a God of Love .~d Love only.”—Ritual page 595.
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It requires but a glanee at this plain paragraph to see that it is a seoff at the Jehovah of the Old Testament, who is the Jesos Christ of the New. And its ignorance equals its impudenee. The name of this same “Sublime Teaeher” is dropped from the Scriptures quoted .in the Lodge, in many of the degrees; and his religion, on the altar of the lodge, is put on a level with the worships of “four-footed beasts and ereeping things.” See Note 155 of this degree. And as to Christ teaehiing a “God of Love only;” “The Seriptures,” whieh Christ endorsed, teaehi that “Justice and judgment are the habitation of His throne !“ Nay, this same “Sublime Teaeher” said of sornc: “These shall go away into everlasting punishment.” 2. This degree makes a false use of the Deealogue,
and a profane use of the Lord’s Supper. ~Vhilethe eandidate is led into and around the lodge, the Thrice Puissant reads the ten Commandments; knowing, as he must, that the Deenlogue is not the Mason’s law of life, but the Lex Naturw or Law of Nature. (See the Ritual, page 812.) Maekey says: “The ten (‘onzniandments are not obligatory upon a Mason!” (See Art Decalogue.) And on page 319 of the Ritual, the Thriee Puissant and Candidate take solemnly conseeraled bread, and drink wine from a eup. The obvious and intended effect of whieh must be to degrade the Deealogue, and rival and run down Christ’s commemoratii’e supper. 3. Then the eandidate is made to swear (p. 817), not to “take arms,” or “enter into any conspiracy against hi. country.” Nevertheless the ten Lodges of the District
of Columbia all entered into sueh a conspiracy before the Rebellion, and Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of this Rite, initiated, in Federal Lodge, Washington, and fought Indians against the Union at Pea Ridge, Ark. And years before, Southern Lodges, and Charleston, the
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seat and headquarters of the Supreme Council, were combined in a conspiracy to break up the country; and all the while this oath was being administered by and to conspirators! to quiet the fears of Northern Masons and insure the suceess of the Rebellion. The effect of such wholesale fraud and sanetimonious false swearing, whether intended or not, could only be to make Christ’s
religion of sincerity and truth, an impossibility Within its influence. 4. But that the intention of the framers of this degree was to make a clean riddance of Christianity is proved by history, a~d is evident from the degree itself.
The eminent French patriot, poet and historian, Lamartine, writing of the times when this degree and its
Seottish Rite originated, says: “The Spirit of Philosophy had organized oeeult associations after the image
of Freemasonry.” “Between the initiated and existing institutions, the war was concealed, but the more deadly.” “These lodges were the ealaeombs of a new Worship.”—Htat. the Girondists, vol. 1, p. 188. What that new underground religion was, is seen on
the preceding page:
“Frederiek the Great was the
corrupter of the Empire.” * * “Military men, edneated in Ihe Sehool of Frederick, aeademies modeled after the genius of Voltaire; colonies of Jews enriched by war, and Freneh refugees formed the public mind.” p. 187. And again on the next page: “The sect of Illuminees, founded and guided by Weishaupt, was spreading in Germany in eonjunetion with the Freemaeons and the Rosicrucians, p. 187. This testimony of Lamartine is mild, impartial, reliable, and concurrent with all the sound writers of that ~‘
day. And never, perhaps, since the march of time be-
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gan, were the destinies of society in the hands of men so completely abandoned of God and goodness as the persons named above and their followers and associates. Voltaire’s writings guided, and his spirit animated them. And his commoli reference to Christ, was in the words: “Crush the wretch I” And these minds controlled the ideas which controlled the public mind and thought when and where The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was born and named, “Rite of Perfection;” and such men were its god-fathers. Its mother was infidelity, and its cradle rebellion. And whether the pretence of Mitchell and Daleho that the Charleston Supreme Councii, and its “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” were chartered by the infidel monarch, Frederick, in 1786, be fact or fiction, the double-headed eagle, which was the banner of both Frederick and the Charleston Counci!, proves the identity of their spirit, nature and intent. But what is this degree in itself? Its legend says that the real name of God was lost, till it was found by Masons, engraved on a three-cornered gold plate, in “the ruins of Enoch.” Whether the Mormon, Jo. Smith, who was a Mason, took his story of gold plates from this one, or invented a like legend of his own, the two are similar in origin, nature, and effect. They both utterly destroy Christianity, while pretending to favor ani expand it. If we turn to the Ritual (page 320,) we see in this degree men kneeling, and repeating the Hebrew names of the consonants which spell Jehovah, which consonants they say they found on that three cornered gold plate, in a cave dug before the deluge. They hear no name pro. nounced. The letters were never lost. The pronunciation of the name was lost, by the silence of superstitious
Jews, who, in reading, paused and passed it. That is not recovered. Our word Jehovah was formed, as we and Freemasons now pronounce it, by uniting its own consonants with the vowel sounds of A donai. That triangular plate, had there been one, could not speak. They pretended to find letters on it, and shout that they have found the true name of God; and some of them hint that our Savior stole the name out of the latter Temple, to conjure and work his miracles by! while their whole trick is the conjuring and legerdemain of which they accuse Christ I But what do they mean to accomplish by it? We answer, what they mean is, obviously, what they get, viz: money and power over mind. And what the devil, who inspires them, means, is equally plain. He knows that “This is life eternal, to know the living and true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.” He knows, too, that the Holy Ghost is ready to lead penitent, believing men to God through the one only and Eternal Mediator —“The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,” and so He is the Eternal Soul of the Old Testament and the Subetance of the New. And Satan. wishes to keep men from coming to Christ to be saved. And if he can so stultify and besot men that they will believe that Ramsay “fabricated” this degree, and yet that it tells truth and “elevates men” !—That the story is manufactured, made up, and yet the name is real, and Masonry a good thing! Then he has accomplished the ruin of every such deluded man! He has taken away God, and the only Mediator by whom finite creatures can come to Him; and set his dupes to gazing on imaginary letters, on an imaginary gold plate! And this is as good as worshipping the moon, or praying to spirits (devils,)
382
.‘,ATAN FILLS Tiik:lit hEARTS ~lfa1
LILS.
WitI) one’s fingers on a table ;—he accomplishes a double purpo~e ;—ht=plucks men from God and chains them to
himself ;—he sets them, to “behold and wonder,” and theui lie knows that they will “despise and perish” as they do ;—he inserlsthimself into their worship ;—me~merizcs them as conjureis mesmerize men ;—charms thcm as serpents charm rabbits and birds ;—fills their heai’ts with lies as hc did Ananias and Sapphira ;—“possesses” them, in short. And if he fails to convince their understandor “blind” their minds, he drags them, perhaps, into vices to disable them for doing good. ~ueh is this Fourtecnth degree of The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Of course, all who receive it aiitl the degrees prceeding it, do not become its vietinis, but multitodes do. And when once he has set up his strong hold in the pulpit. lrnr, press, and above all, in colleges and schools; “Ten thousand rove the nooda and br,ikes among. ~stw.,rdand some neatward and all wreng
All lose the way to God. None “find rest to their souls.” after Satan enters into them, as he entered Judas and Ahithophel. But ~veare “complete in Christ,” bceause lie is our way to God, who is Infinite a~d Immovable.
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CHAPTER XXV FIFTEENTH DEGREE OR KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR 5’ SWORD.’ DECORATIONS —This assembly is styled a Council, two apartments are necessary, the first is the apartment of the East representing a Palace, fitted up in the eastern style with water green hangings, with throne, canopy. etc. Over the throne is a Sun, etc., behind the throne may be a representation of the dream of Cyrus; in the West are two arm-chairs. SECOND APARTMENI’ is the hail of the West and represents the ruins of the Grand Lodge of Perfection at Jerusalem, with red hangings, and illuminated by seventy lights, in groups of seven each or usually twentyfive, viz: Three in the North, five in the South, seven in the West, and nine in the East, and the Delta, making twenty-live. In the passage between these two rooms Note 1U.—”Knight of the East or Sword. The 15th degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite it refers to those valiant Masons who, with trowels in band and sworda by their aides, were every ready to construct and defend the Iloly City and 5nnctuary. It is founded on the eircumstance of the assistance rendered hy Darins to the Jews. who, liberated ftom their captivity hy Cyrns had been prevented hy their enemies from rebuilding the temple. This degree requires three aparments. styled Mali of the west end Hail of the East. between which must be an antechamber or passage, representing the road from Jerusalem to Perala. The first apartment represents the encampment of the Masons among the ruins of Jerusalem. The hangings are crimson. The mom is lighted with 70 lights. disposed in groups of 7 each, in commemoration of the 70 yeara’ captivity. The second apartment represents the council chamber of Cyrus, King of Persia. and should he decorated according to the customa of the Orientais. In the ante-room. soparating the two apartments. must be a solid bridge, resembling stone. with a representation of running water under it. The jewel, of gold. is three trianglea. one within the other, diminishing in size, and inclosing two naked swords, crossed hilts downnard. resting on the base of the inner triangle ‘—Maooya Enoyolopudia and Dtatioaaq lPsemusonry. Article Knight of the Ealt or Swond.
384
385
KNIGHTS Oil THE EAST OK SWORD.
KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORD.
should be a wooden bridge guarded at both ends by
triangles. The Captain of the Guard is clothed as the other brethren, wearing the sash and jewel. All the brethren wear green mantles or cloaks trimmed with
armed men. TITLES FIRST APARTMENT.
Sovereign Ma~ter,
represents Cyrus.
Master of Cavalry,
represents Senior Warden.
Master of Infantry,
represents—Junior Warden.
Master of Palace,
represents
Master of Finance,
represents TFeasurer.
Master of Dispatches, Master of Ceremonies.
represents
Orator. Secretary.
Captain of the Guards. CLOTHING :—The Sovereign Master, Master of Palace, and the Master of Dispatches are clothed in Royal Robes. The Sovereign Master wears a crown and uses a Scepter. All the brethren in Robes of Red or Yellow, with caps or turbans, with a sun embroidered on the front. The Sovereign Master, Master of Palace and the Master of Dispatches, each wear a red or green collar round the neck, from the end of which is suspended a Golden Sun. SECOND APARTME!JT :—Sovereign Master is Styled Thrice Excellent. Wardens are styled Excellent Wardens. All others are styled Venerables. All wear a water colored girdle fringed with gold. In the second apartment the presiding officer in the first part of the reception represents Ananias, seated in the East and styled Sovereign Grand Master, clothed as the other brethren, hut wears a crown and holds a gavel in his hand. His jewel is three triangles interlaced,
suspended from the end of the order. In the second part of the reception he represents Zerubbabel. The Senior Warden sits in the West clothed as the other brethren; his jewel is a square ~vithin three triangles. The Junior Waiden’s jewel is a level ~ ithin three
eed, and the sash and jewel, and armed with swords;
two cross swords are embroidered on the front of the sword belt. ORDER :—Water green colored sash with a green rosette at’ the bottom, worn from right to left. JEWEL :—The same as the Grand Master Architect, with the addition of two steel cross swords on it, or suspended from it. APRON :—White, lined and bordered with green, two vross swords, painted on the flap. On the apron are three links of a chain of a triangular form, below them an arched bridge, on the center arch the letters L. 0.~.?.•. BANNER :—Green silk, bordered with red, on it a lion And a wolf, emblems of the tribes of Judah and Benja. min.
I K~TOIIT5 OF TiIF~ EAST Oil
OPI~NING CEREMONII~S KNIGHTS OF TILE EAST on SwORD.’”
[All the oflicers being at tileir stations except the Sovereign Master.] Master of (Javalr~—Sir Knights, the Sovereign Master has o,rdered us to asselnbie to hold a Council, let us be attentive to what lii will propose to us. Here he comes! [Sovereign Master enters, marches up to the throne, strikes one with the poninich of his sword and brings it to a s~llllte. All return the salute.] Sovereign Master—Sir Knigllt, Master of Cavalry, what is your duty? Afaster of Cauoh~q—To see that tIle Council is secure, that none may titter who are not true Knights. Sovereign ALmlcr—Szm’ haigllts, Masters of Cavalry and Infantry, Illake your inspection. (Thc~ leave their stations, e=~ait1inehotlI doors and return.) Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master. the guards are at their posts, tile Council is secure, and we may deliberate in safety. Note 154.—”Enigbt of the East or Sword.
[Scotch Masonry.]—Thc’
first dcgit’t’ (cinfc’rreil in the Cinnill of Prlo.’eo cit Jcrus,clc uc $eictch ~i.csnnry,s.d tlcc’ ti I Ic’entb ci~on the en to usc. ut ttcict s.c .Ini. The c,Illcc,r’c .rc. C3rus the ~overt’Igci Nel.iu.ic. lb. Spitter Ii. nirol. the .tu,iii.r Cencral, Ouncid Muster cf the Psicci. t~r.cnd Mustir if Cere’ •co.,.ic~. On. uid ?.inntc’r of Itislo I he,. ii ccl ~rii nil t’.i~ito ii if (luard. The hangings of the Oeuucccll th,.nctcer ore cc ntt’r-grt~ei. tii[c.’t rc , ef [hi’ ii., ii of the Vc’orkmecc. red. Ilici c nrc’ sevc’u.t3 light liii’ .i vr~,ct is ~chftp, lined and edged ‘c [tic grcn•cc, ,. nil iits 1cli~ a . i lii to of three link’.: icpon the niccyoble pirt, tic.’ crenocil swords cccl. the scime ,s the Orand Master Architect. cc filch ice tcigu’thcr wIth • rcc”””t ticcords st the hot [em. I lent fcc c,~cc’,c, I lc,• uuid if Ihe arctic c .c’:crs cit esp— tIvIt~ hour to close, the i’c.mplettoe cit the ciceocid T.’ei~ili’. Age 7O.’ —Mania’. Masonic Dictionary. Azticlo Knights ot the Epat or Sword.
s~voRD.
387
Sovereign Master—Sil’ Knight, Master of Cavalry, is that sutlicient? Master of Cavalry—It is not, Sovereign Master, we should be ~atisfied that all present are entitled to a seat in the Council. Sovereign Master—Satisfy yourselves, Sir Knights, Masters of Infantry and Cavalry. (They leave their stations and receive the pass-word from each Knight and return.) Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, all present are
Knights of the East or Sword. Sovereign Master—Together, Sir Knights.
(All clap
Ave and two; 00000 00.) Glory to God and our Sovereign. Sovereign Master—I declare this Council of Knights of the East or Sword open. ITe then strikes and says, be seated, Sir Knights.
INITIATION.
389
Master of Ceremonies—A Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, who solicits the honor of being created a Knight of the East or Sword. Captain of Guard—Is this an act of his own free will and accord?
CHAPTER XXVI FIFTEENTH DEGRER OR KNIGHTS OF THE EAST 03 ~iiwORD. INITIATION.
The first part of the initiation is in the Grand lodge of Perfection. The Master of Ceremonies prepares the candidate as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, conducts him to the door and knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9. Captain of Guard—Tbrice Puissant Grand Master,
there is an alarm at the door.
Thrice Puissant—See the cause of that alarm, venerable Captain of the Guard. [Captain of the Guard goes to the door, knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9, opens it and says:] What is the cause of this alarm? Note 165.—Knight of the East. (Oheuliar 5’ OrIent.) This is a degree which has been extensively diffused through the most lm~ portant Rites, and it ewes its popularity te the f.ic’t that it commemo. rstecs in its legend and its ceremonIes the labors ef the Macions in the construction of the second Temple “1, it is the fifteenth degree of the Ancient sad Accepted Scottish RIte, the description of which will apply with slight modtficstions to the same degree in all the other Rites, It is founded upon the history of the assistance rendered by Cyrus to the Jews who permitted the, to relorn to Jerusalem, and to commence the rebuilding of the house of the Lord, Zerubbobel, therefore, as the Prince of the Jews, and Cyrua the tdng of Persia, sa his patroci, sre Important personages in the dramo of reception; which Is conducted wIth grest impressi,enesa e,en in the old and somewhat Imperfect rItual of [be Inst century, hut which has been greatly Improved, I thInk. is the modern rituals ado~d by the Supreme Ceciccells of the United Stales. n of a Knight of Ihe Rail Is as hroad green watered ribbon, worn as a baidric from left to right. The sash or girdle is of white watered silk, edged above, and fringed below with gold. Os it is ecnbrcildered a bridge, with the letters L. D. P. on the arch, and also on of her parts of [he girdle human heads, and mutilated limbs. and crowns, acid swords, The apron Is crimson, edged with green. a bleeding head and two swords crossed on the flap, sad on the apron three trlanglea Interlaced formed of trIangular links of chains. The ~ triangles interlaced enclouiaf two naked swords,’~— Enayplopasdia of Freemasonry, hat ole Knight of the bat.
Master of Ceremonies—It is. Captain of Quard—By what further right or benefit does he expect to obtain this privilege? Master of Ceremonies—By the benefit of the Sacred Word, and with your assistance we will give it. (The Captain of the Guard retires and the word is given as in the lodge of Perfection, when all rise.) Captain of Guard—Who is this brother, venerable Grand Master of Ceremonies, and whence comes lie? Master of Ceremonies—His name is Zerubbabel’” a Prince of the house of Judah who comes from Babylon to view the ruins of the temple’ and the holy city. Captain of Guard—What does he desire? Master of Ceremony—To offer his sei~vices to his brethren who have returned from captivity. Captain of Guard—Let him wait a time with patience and I will inform the Thrice Excellent Grand Master of lot. 1U.—”Thls eminent Prince who in wisdom. Influence and seal for God’s honor, was only second to Solomon himself, Is Introduced into the degrees of Royal Arch and Red Cross Knight, also into varloos degrees of Sc~otcb Masonry, occupyIng the seine relation to the second templeAfiolomon did to Ihe first. So prominent. Indeed, was his positlo., that the Second Temple I. most frequently called after his name, The name Z.rubhahel signifies ~begottenIn Babylon,’ referring he his nativity. He I. called ‘the son of Shealtiel. He was the ace, or head, of the Iribe of Judah. at the time of the return from flahylonish ca1’ tivity. C. pisied 536. himself Of the atdecree of Cyrus he himself,B, and the head of those Immediately of his countrymen avaiL, ‘whose spirit GeS had raised to go up to buIld the House of the Lord which Is in Jerusalem.’ It was probable that he was In the service of the King of Babylon. for he hsd a Chaidaic mane. 5heebbsssar. and was appointed hy Cyrus governor of Jades. BeIng armed with s grant from thai King. of timbe, and stone for the building, and of money for the expenses of the buildere. he collected the materials, including cedar trees fro~ Lebanon, and got together masons and csrpentera to do the work by the openin of second year of their return. But ml~~~ntatlens at the Court of Persia esat a blight upon the prospect, and for many years Cue work of building ceased. In the second year of Darina, however. B C, 520. a favorable decree was secured, gained, according to masonic tradition. by a personal appeal from Zenibbahel, who had spent some of the ~re of Ils youth with Darius. while the latter was a private ~n.”—Merriaa Masonic Dictionary 5 Astisle Zasubbehel.
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390
KNIGHTS OF
TIlE r.A~T OR SWORD.
INITIATION.
his request. (Captain of the Guard enters, approaches the throne, knocks 3, ~? 7 and 9.) Thrtcc Excellent—What is the cause of this alarm? Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Mast*I, there ts without1 a Grand Elect, Perfect and Su~b1iIlIe Mason who solicits the honor of being created a Knight of the East of Sword. Thrice Excellent—Is this an act of his own frcc will
and accord? Captain of Guard—It is. Thrice Excellen t—Wllo is this brother, venerablt’ Captain of the Guard, and wllence comes he? Captain of Guard—his name is Zcrubbabel’~ Prince of thc house of Judah, who comes from Bab~lon to view the ruins of the temple and the holy city. Thrice Excellent—What does lIe dcsire? Captain of Guard—To offer his scrviccs to his breti’. ren who have rcturned from captivit~. Thrice Excellent—You will retire and let this Prince of the house of Judah be admitted. Captain of Guard—(Havmlig opened the door) it is tile order oI~ the Thrice Excellent Gland Master, that this Prince of the house of Jimdali bc admitted. Thrice Excellent—(Knoeks three; 000. All rise.) (Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter, approach the altar and salute.) .
Note 157.—”Tliici traditional history relotes that 2erohbabel. for protfiction of hit people, armed 7 000 Masons, and placed them In the ‘.an to repel such as should oppose theIr march to Judes. Their the
mureb
cuss unimpeded as
of the
bridge.
far en
iii.’ bank, of the
Euphrates.
where
th”y found an armed force opposed to their paaaage. A confliel ensued, and the enemy was cot to pieces •‘r drowned at the i)aa~sg..
The emblenotie color of the degree is In itll~nloti ii’
this circumstance The journey ceenpird four months. ned in aeveut days from thrir arrival the work of restoring the temple wan cootmenced. Tue workmen were dIvided Into clascies. over each of which a ,hlcf. with two aqeletants, cicina t,iaoe,l F’.very degree of etch class was paid according to Its rank find ci, h cItes lied Its diStineilve modes of recognition ‘—Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dmotiosary of Freemasonry. Articlo Knight of the East or Sword.
391
T/srice Excellent—My brother, tllis lodge has been selected to rule and govern the remnant of the children of Israel, who have returned from captivity where they had been carried after the destruction of Jerusalem and King Solomon’s temple by Nebuchadnezzar”’ King of the Chaldeans.
We cannot receive you as befits your
rank, for we are poor and discouraged, as our once noble city still remains in ruins. But we welcome you, and rejoice that you have not forgotten your brethren, and thank you also for your kind offer. Master of C~rsmonies— (For Candidate) Thrice Excellent Grand Master, this is the first year of the reign of Cyri~slsa King of Persia, and he hath made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in
writing, saying, “thus saith Cyrus King of Persia. The Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdoms
of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him an Ilouse at Jerusalem.”
I have come hither at the re-
quest of my brethren to offer up our prayers unto the God of Israel, that lie will cause Cyrus the King to remember his proclamation and set free all the children of Israel now in bondage, and let them go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Mote 168.—’ ‘Nebuchadnessttr was engagcd during his whole reIgn In wars of conquest. Among ntb,’r nations who fell beneath his victorious arms was Judes. whose king, Jeholakim. was slain by itehuchadneaaar. and his son. Jehotachin. ascended the Jewish throne. After a reign of three years. he was deposed hy Nehochadnessar. and hIs kingdom given to his uncle, Zedeklah. a monarch distinguished for his vIces. Having repeatedly rehelled against the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnemar repaired to Jerusalem. and after a sIege of eighteen months, reduced it. The cite was leveled with the ground, the Temple pillaged and burned, and the inhabItant., carried captive to Babylon.” —Mackey’s Enegolopeodia of Freemasonry, hztlole Nsbuehada.asar. lots 1U.—”The Jews. who bad been carried away by Nehuehadesmar on the destruction of the Temple, were then remaining sa captIves in Babylon. These Cyrus released A. M. 8466. or 3. 0. 586. and soot them back to Jerusalem to rebuild the house of God, under the care of Joshua. Zermibbahel. and Haggal. Hence, from this con. nectlon of Cyrus with the history of Masonry, lie plays an buportant pert In the ritualS of many ‘of the high degrees.“—Mackay’s Emepolo9eeiia of Freemasonry. Article Cyrus.
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KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SwoRD. 392 Lord God of Israel which is in Jerusalem. TArice Excellent—Brethren let us offer up our prayer, for the success of the noble prince Zerubbabel. PRAYER, KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORD.
Thou, 0 Lord, wilt save the afflicted people and wilt level the high towers of pride. By thine aid have I run through a troop of enemies, and by my God I lesped in safety over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the Lord is tried, he is a buckler to all those who trust in him, for who is God save the I,~ord? Or who is a rock save our God? He teacheth me to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand hath holden ins up, sud thy strength hath given me power. I have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them, neither did I turn sgain until they were consumed. I have wounded them and they were not able to rise, they are fallen under my feet for thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle. Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Therefore will I praise the Lord forevermore. Amen. Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) Thrice Excellent Grand Master, I will now retire, and after I have
visited the ruins of the temple I shall return to Babylon, and if possible obtain an audience with Cyrus”’ the King and remind him of his proclamation, and endeavor to obtain the liberty of our brethren in captivity, to enable us to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the house of the Lord. lots 1YS.—TbIs dIstInguIshed character. the found.’, of the Peg’. I. Introduced In Scotch Masonry In the degrees of KUIEbS and Grand Master Ad.vitam; in Chivalri. Masonry, in the degree of lCulgbt of the Bed Cross, and In Chapter Masonry, in the dagree of Royal Arch. “Re defeated the Median King. shoot B. C 1159. and began a career of cooqoest. which made him the hero of the Rast. Thirteen he defeated Crwsus and conquered Lydia. He captureS ~‘bylon,3. c. M5. He fell In battle. B. C. 823. HIs monument is Sill shown at Paseryad,. In pnod preservatIon. “—Noiris’s K~Ie ~onary. ArtIcle Oysm Astasm
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393
Thrice Excellent—(To candidate) Again we thank you Zerubbabel for your kind offer. We will also furnish you with an escort to the Persian frontier while we offer up our prayers for your success.
Thrice Excellent—Excellent Senior Grand Warden, you will take a sufficient number of guards; let Zerubbabel”’ view the ruins of the temple and the holy city, and conduct him to the Persian frontier, for he bears the tears and distresses of his brethren. Thrice Excellent—Brethren, I declare this lodge adJourned. Master of Ceremonies and Senior Warden conduct the candidate to the ante-room, divest him of his ornaments, bare his head and neck and bind his waist with chains, throw a black veil over his head, etc., meanwhile the brethren retire to the first apartment, representing the court of Cyrus, when the officers take their stations. Master of Ceremoniea—( With candidate knocks 5 and 3 on the door.) Master of Infantry—Sir Knight, Master of Cavalry, some one knocks as a Knight of the East or Sword. Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, some one knocks as a Knight of the East or Sword. Sovereign Master—Sir Knight, Captain of the Guard see who knocks. (Captain of the Guard goes to the door, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.) lots 171.—”Zercijhhabel. in writIng the life of Zerubbabel In a Masonic point of view. It is Incumbent that reference should be made to the legends as well as to the more strictly historical details of his eventful career, ~W’~ ihe traditIons of the Royal Arch, and some other of the high degrees. Zerobbabel Is not less Intimately connected than Ia Solomon with those of Pyinbollr or Ancient Craft Masonry. ~‘o understand those traditioss properly, they moat be placed in their appropriate place In the life of him who plays so Important a part in them. Some of these legends have the concurrent auppoet of Scripture, some are related by Josephus. and some appear to have no historical foundation, without, therefore, vouching for theIr authentIcity, they must be recounted 1 to make the Masonic life of the builder of th complete. ‘—Knoheg’s aoyeiopaadls of Freemasonry.
394
KNIGHTS OF TIlE EAST OIl SWORD. INITIATION.
295
Captain of Guard—Who knocks, and “dIaL do you
desire? Master of Ceremonies—I beg if possible, that ~ou would procure me the honor of speaking to the king. Captain of quard—Who are you? Master of Ceremonies—A Jew by nation, a Prince
by blood, descendant from the race of David and the tribe of Judah, but a captive and slave by misfortune. Captain of Guard—What is your name?
Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel.”’ Captain of Guard—What is your age F Master of Ceremonies—Seventy years. Captain of Guard—From whence came you? Master of Ceremonies—From Jerusalem.
brethren. Sovereign Master—Let him be admitted. (Captain of
the Guard opens the door, they enter and the Master of Ceremonies conducts him seven times round the room while the following is read:
Captain of Guard—What motives bring you here? Master of Ceremonies—The tears and distresses of my brethren. Captain of Guard—Wait a while and I will go and intercede with the king for you. (Captain of the Guard shuts the door and approaches the altar.) Captain of Guard—Sovereign Master, there is without one who desires the honor of being admitted into your presence. Soverci~qn Master—Who is he? Captain of Guard—A Jew by nation, a Prince by Kate lV3.—”Zen,bbabel (sown In Babylon), a Prince of Zudab, non of shealtiel. of the royal housc of David. was the leader of the first colony of Jews that returned from captivity to their native land undcr the
permission
of Cyrus.
carrying
with
them the
precious
blood, descendant from the race of David, and tribe of Judah, but a captive and slave by misfortune. Sovereign Master—What is his name? Captain of Guard—Zerubbabel. Soverei~’n Master—What is his age? Captain of Guard—Seventy years, Sovereign Master—What motives bring him hither? Captain of Guard—The tears and distresses of his
vessels
belonging to the temple for the service of God. With the aid of Joshua and his body of priesta Zerul’hahel proceeded, on his arrival in Jerusalem. to rebuild the fallen city, beginning with the altar of burnt-offerings, in order that tbe dolly services michi be restored. ‘rho samaritana. however, having been offended at beIng expresaly excluded from a share in the land, threw ohatarles in the way to hlndhr the work, and even procured from the Persian court an order that It should be stopped. Accordingly. everythIng remained auspended until the seeond year of Darius Ityataspla in. C. 521 ~. when the restoi’stion was reaumed and carried to completion, through the Influence of Zerubbabel with the Persian monarch This sublect Is heantifullv exemplified in the degrees of the Rast end Sword and the Knight of the Red Cross.” Maooy’s Encyolopsedie and DIctionary of rreemnaaonry. katie!. ZerubbebeL
Sovereign Master—By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wcpt when we remembered Zion, we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof, for there they who carried us away captives required of us a song, and they who wasted us, required of us mirth, saying sing to us one cf the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? if I forget thee 0, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, 0 Lord the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof. 0 daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed, happy shall he he who rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall be he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
(When this
is ended they halt in front of the Master of Cavalry.) Master of Cavalry—What motives bring you hither? Master of Ceremonies—I am come to implore the
K
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bounty and justice of the king. Master of Cavalry—On what occasion?’ Master of Ceremonies—To beg grace for my brethren, masons in captivity for seventy years. Master of Cavalty—Who are you? Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel a Hebrew Prince, sprung from the race of David. Master of Cavalry—What is the grace you-would ask? Master of Ceremonies—TO see my brethren set free, to suffer them to return to Judea and rebuild the temple, revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinances of Moses. Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies, let the candidate face the East. (Master of Ceremonies causes him to do so.) Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, tbere stanais here in the West one who desires the honor of being admitted into your presence. Sovereign Master—What brings him hither? Master of Cavalry—lie comes to implore your bounty and justice. Sovereign Master—On what occasion? Master of Cavalry—wTo beg grace for his brethren,
masons in captivity for seventy years. Sovereign Master—Who is he? Master of Cavalry—Zerubbabel, a Hebrew Prince,
sprung from the race of David. Sovereign Master—What is the grace he would ask? Master of Cavalry—To see his brethren set free, to suffer them to return to Judes and rebuild the temple, revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinances of Moses. Sovereign Master—Since motives so praiseworthy have
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brought him hither, permit him to approach our presence with his face uncovered. Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies, cpnduct the candidate to the East. (Master of Ceremonies cQnducts him to th~ East, causes him to kneel before the Sovereign Master and takes the veil off his head.) Sovereign Master—This is indeed Zerubbabel, who saved my life at the risk of his own. Arise’ Zerubbabel and prefer your request. (Master of Ceremonies causes him to rise and says:) Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) Sovereign Master, the tears and lamentations of my fellow captives and the remnant of our people at Jerusalem have compelled me to appeal to your justice and mcrcy. Many remain here in bondage and all anxious for the happy day to arrive when they shall be engaged in rebuilding the holy city and the house of the Lord. They have prayed me to obtain an audfence with your august majesty to implore your clemency and that you will be pleased to restore to those their freedom who are now in bondage, to enable them to return to the land of their fathers and to aid and assist in rebuilding the house of the Lord. Sovereign Master—(To candidate) Zerubbabel, I have often heard of your fame as a wise and skillful mason and I have a profound veneration for that ancient and honorable institution, and a sincere wish to become a member of the same; I have also, like yourself lamented the seventy years’ captivity of the Israelites. I now promise to grant your request if you will communicate to me the secrets of masonry which distinguished the Jews from all other nations. Master of Ceremonies—Sovereign Master, when our Grand Master, Solomon King of Israel communicated to us the first principles of masonry, he informed us
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that equality was its foundation. Equality does not reign here. Your rank, your superiority, your titles and your court are not admissible in the place where instruc-
shams. Their God, whom they call their mighty God, has appeared to me in a vision, and methought this God threatened me like a roaring lion ready to fall upon and devour me, methought I heard th~sc words from his mouth wl~ich signifies in our language, render my people their liberty, or thou shalt die. Alarmed at the sight, I endeavored to escape by flight but my feet refused to obey. Then I saw Nebuchadnazzar and Belshazzar, Kings of Babylon, lying prostrate and loaded with chains, and above them in a bright glory the ineffable name. Amazed and terrified, I awoke. From you thercfore, beloved Princes, [ expect counsel in this matter
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tions are given in our mysteries. Solomon also taught us that Truth w~s a divine attrib~’tp and the foundation
of every virtue. To be good and true was the first lesson we were taught in masonry. My engagements are sacred and inviolable, I ani unable to revcal our secrets, and if liberty is to be obtained at such a price, I would prefer
an honorable exile or a glorious death. Sovereign Master—Sir Knights, I admire the discretion and virtue of Zerubbabel. He deserves liberty as a
reward for his firmness. Zerubbabel, you are free. Guards free Zerubbabel from those chains and that garb of slavery. (The brcthrcn take off his chains) and may those badges of scrvitude never again disgrace the hands of a mason and more especially those of a Prince of the house of Judah. Sir Knight, Master of Ceremonies conduct Zerubbabel to the seat of honor. Master of Ceremonies—Sovereign Mdster, permit Zerubbabel to thau,k thee for thy great clemency and favor, and at the same time to again urge the prayers and entreaties of his brethren in bondage. In the first year of thy reign, thou didst issue thy Jioval Proclamation and promised to give them their liberty and permit thcm to return to the land of their fathers and aid and assist their own kindred and brethren in rebuilding the house of the Lord. Wilt thou not harken unto their voice that thou mayest reign in peace and prosperity on
thy throne that God hath given thee? Sovcreign Mastv’r—Princes, Generals and Knights, I have for a long time meditated to give the captive masons their liberty. It troubles me to see those people in
as regards what I must do to the people of IsraeL
(All
observe a profound silence for awhile.) Master of Palace—Sovereign Master, the voice which you heard in your dream was that of thc Great ‘~rc1iitect of the Universe, who long since through his prophets foretold your coming, and gave you dominion over the East. The captives are the children who have been in bondage seventy years.
The God of their fathers
whom they call their mighty God, commands you to free them from bondage, and permit them to return to thcir own country, that they may assist their brethren in re-
building the house of the Lord. The chains upon the prostrate Kings, warn you of your fate should you refuse. The roaring lion represents his anger that will overtake and destroy you if you disobey his commands. Thus, Sovereign Master do I interpret your drcam and would counsel you to render the people of Israel their liberty and live. Sovereign Master—Grand Master of Palace, I will harken unto thy voice. Zerubbabel, I consent that Israel be sent at liberty, even that they are permitted to
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return to their own country or remain in my dominjoiw,
of the unhappy remnant of the fraternity which have
and that you may go and build a temple to the mighty God, and that the vases and all the other ornaments of the old temple be raised and restored to you for the ornamepts of the New. Further, I appoint you chief over all the Jewihh nation and command that they obey you as such, and as an authentic mark of my good will I arm you with this sword. (Invests him with it) to combat with your enemies and to make you formidable to ouch of your brethren that might combat against you. I also invest you with this green sash and apron, (invest. him) in imitation of those worn by the ma~ons employed at the building of Solomon’s temple. I will now deliver you in charge of Nebuzaradan, my general who will instruct you in the art of war and give you guides and an escort to conduct you in safety to your brethren, where you will found the new temple. Thus I decree Grand Master of Cavalry. You will now retire with Zerubbabel and instruct him in the art pf war, procure guards and an escort for him to conduct him in safety to his brethren. (After he retires the brethren go into the second apartment and the officers take their stations. When all is ready the Master of Ceremonies conducts him to the bridge which he attempts to cross, but is opposed by the guards who rob him of his apron and sash. He attacks them and drives them off, crosses the bridge and arrives at the door of the second apartment or lodge of Perfection, and the Master of Ceremonies knocks 5 and 2.) Excellent Senior Warden—Thrice Excellent Grand Master, there is an alarm at the door. Thrice Excellent—Venerable Captain of the Guard,
been freed from captivity.
see the cause of that alarm. (Captain of the Guard go..
to the door, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.) Captain of Guard—What is the cause of this alarm? Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel, Prince of the house of Judah, I wish to see my brethren, that I may inform them of my deliverance from Babylon, and that
(Captain of Guard shuts
the door.) Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Master, it is Zerubbabel, Prince of the house of Judah, who wishes to see his brethren that he may inform them of his deliverance from Babylon and that of the unhappy remnant of the fraternity who have been freed from bondage.
i’hrice Excellent—(Knocks 5; 00000. AU rise.) Let Zerubbabel be admitted. (Captain of Guard admits them, they enter and halt at the altar.) Alt-Health to Zerubbabel Prince of Judah. Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Master, I introduce to you Prince Zerubbabel .who wishes to be received into the bosom of our fraternity. Thrice Excellent—Zerubbabel 1 welcome you, and would be much pleased to hear an account of your deliverance. Master of Ceremoniea—(For candidate) Thrice Excelleut Grand Master, on my arrival at Babylon, Cyrus me permission to enter his court and approach the rave of his throne and implore his bounty for my brethren in captivity. He was touched with the mysteries of the fraternity and armed me with this sword for the defence of my brethren and honored me with the titi. of brother among his companions. He granted me my freedom and committed me to the care of his faithful subjects who conducted me on my journey and assisted me in conquering my enemies at the passage of the river Euphrates, where notwithstanding our victory we lost the marks of distinction which had been given us by the king. Thrice Excellent—My brother, the loss which you have met with shows that the justice of our fraternity would not endure the triumph of pomp and grandeur. In decorating you with those honors, Cyrus was not guided by that spirit of equality which has always char-
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aeterized you. By this loss all the marks of distinction received by you from that Prince have disappeared, but you have preserved that of Freemasonry. But before I communicate to you those secrets, wi~eh since our captivity have been~ preserved among the remnant of our
dishonored and losing the title of a freemason, and of being deprived of the advantages of the Council. So
fraternity, we must require of you assurances that you have not lost the sentiments or knowledge of masonry
during your servitude. How far have you advanced in masonry?
Master of Ceremonies—( For candidate) To that of Perfection. Thrice Excellent—Oive me the sign. Master of Ceremonies—(Gives it) or more generally the candidate. Thrice Excellent—Give to the Master of Ceremonies
the grip and words. Cand:date—(Gives them.) Thrice Excellent—Sir Knights, I believe Zerubbabel is worthy to participate in our new mysteries. What say you? (All answer by holding up their swords.) Thrice Excellent—Venerable Master of Ceremonies, you will conduct Zerubbabel by three steps to the altar and there let him kneel and contract his obligation. (Master of Ceremonies causes him to advance by three steps and kneel at the altar, when the Thrice Excellent leaves the throne, goes to the altar and administers the following obligation: OBLIGATION KNIGHT OF TilE EAST OR SWORD.
I—promise and swear in the presence of the Great Architect of the Universe, and before all the brethren,
Knights of the East here present and assembled, on the faith of an honest man and freemason, to be faithful in my religion and laws of the state, and as far as in my power never to reveal the mysteries of the degree of Knights of the East, and never receive into this degree
any brother but conformable to the ancient statutes and constitutions of the order, under the penalty of being
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God maintain me in uprightness and justice. Amen.
Thrice Excellent—Venerable Master of Ceremonies, you will now conduct our brother to our Excellent Senior Grand ‘Warden who will invest him with the signs, grip and words of this degree. (Thrice Excellent returns to the throne, seats the brethren and the Master of Ceremonies conducts the candidate to the Senior Warden.) Excellent Senior Grand Warden—My dear brother, I rejoice at the favors yob have received from our Sovereign Cyrus, for by his bounty you and the nation have become free. He has armed you with a sword to. defend yourself against your enemies. I will now decorate you with this sash, worn from the right shoulder to the left
hip, and now put you in possession of the signs, grip and words of this degree, which are as follows:
SIG~l, KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWO~.
Raise the right hand to the left shoulder and move it downward to the right hip, with a serpentine motion as if to represent the motion of the waters of a
river; then draw the sword and bring it to the guard as if to fight.
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those, and those only we communicate our seciets with pleasure, and we require as a pledge that they should bring with them some remains of the monuments or orRiaments of the old temple. Those which you received from Cyrus are aufilcient. The object of our labors is to rebuild the temple of the Great Architect of the Universe. This sublime work
TOKEN.
Seize mutually the left hands, the arms lifted and extended as if to~repulse an attack; at the same time make with the right hand
has been reserved for you.
the motion of clear-
The engagements into which you, with us have en-
ing the way; then point the swords to each other’s heart.
tered under the name of Zerubbabel require you to aid and assist us in rebuilding the temple in its original
splendor. The sword which Cyrus has given you is to be used in defending ydur brethren and punishing those
One says Judah the other answers. Benja~min.
who would profane the august temple which we raised Token.
:—Proceed proudly by five long steps and hold the sword high. MARCH
BATTERY :—Seven strokes by five and two. AGE
DhITUTION.
:—Seventy years. :—Iaaborou, hammain or liberty of pass-
PASS WORD
age. GRAND WORD :—Shalal, Shalom, Abi, in Latin Restoravit pacem patri. lie resotored peace to his co~mtry. SACRED WORD :—Raph-O-dOIfl. Senior Grand Warden—(Continuing) My brother, the destruction of the temple subjugated masons to such severe calamities we feared that their captivity and dispersion might have impaired their fidelity to their engagements, and for this reason we have been obliged while rebuilding the temple to remain in a secret and retired place, where we carefully preserve some of the ruins of the ancient temple. We do not introduce any to that place unless we know them to be true and worthy masons, not only by their
signs, grips and words, but also by their conduct. To
to the, glory of the holy one of Israel. It is on these conditions you participate in our ceremonies. Venerable Master of Ceremonies, you will now conduct Zerubbabel to the brethren and satisfy them that he has the signs, grip and words, after which you will conduct him to our Thrice Excellent Grand Master in the East. (Master of Ceremonies conducts him to the North and East ,columns and he giv.es each Knight the signs, grip
and words. He then conducts him to the Thrice Excellent Master.) Thrice Excellent—My brother, your deliverance by Cyrus and having been ereatcd a Knight by him, I now present you\with this trowel. (Presents it,) a symbol of your new dignity, that hereafter you may labor with a trowel in one hand and use the sword with the other to defend ourselveR against our enemies should we ever be attacked, for in that manner we have proceeded to rebuild it. [Presents him with sash and girdle.] Receive this girdle as a mark of true knighthood,
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which you acquired at the River Euphrates by the vic-
tory you obtained over those who opposed your passage. (Presents him with a green rosette.]
Though we do not admit among our ceremonies any of the decorations which were given to you by Cyrus, yet we are willing to preserve their remembrance by a rosette of that color. [He affixes it to his coat and presents him with the collar and jewel.] This collar and jewel is the badge of the Knights of the East or Sword. May justice and equity, represented by the sword, be your guide.
(He next presents him with the gloves.] Knights and Princes, I hereby declare Zerubbabel to be a chief and a ruler over the labors of masonry. Zerubbabel, ascend the throne of the Sovereigns of our lodge, preserve the triangular stone of this edifice, and rule the workmen as Solomon, Hiram and Joabert have done before you. [Seats him on his right hand.I Thrice Excellent—Join me Sir Knights! [All clap three times with their hands and at each time say with a loud voice, Zerubbabel.] Thrice Excellent—Illustrious Grand Orator, you have
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ordered the links of their chains to be made of a triangu~iar”’ shape in order more fully to insult the captive Jews, who he knew had a profound religious veneration and respect for the triangle or delta. Great was the sorrow of the masons when they witnessed the destruction of the temple, the grandest work of human hands, which had been directed by the Great Architect of the Universe himself. Their tears never eeasd to flow, until the day of their liberation, when they were permitted to build it anew, after the model of the former one.
This grace, after seventy years of captivity was accorded to them by Cyrus King of Persia, a prince fanious alike for his brilliant victories and great humanities. This great conqueror, master of the Eastern wOrld had a singular and remarkable vision. He appeared to hear a voice from the Heavens directing him to give liberty to the captives. The Prophet Daniel, who had become one of the favorites of the monarch and arrived at honor and rank in his court, explained to
him the true interpretation of the vision. Zerubbabel, a Prince of the house of Judah, having gained admission to the presence of King Cyrus dcmanded of him the freedom of his nation and permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. The King graciously granted the request and made restitution to him of all the treasures which had been carried away from the holy temple by his predecessors
and honored Zerubbabel with the title of Knight of the ADDRESS BY GRAND ORATOR.
My brother, after the destruction of the holy city and
order, and directed that every facility and assistance
should be afforded him and his compatriots, and issued
the temple by Nebuzaradan, he took all the prisoners
a royal edict to that effect. Then Zerubbabel assembled all the Israelites, the number of whom were forty-two
whom he had captured and carried them away into
thousand three hundred and sixty (42,360) exclusive
captivity into into Babylon fortunates in king Zedekish
Net• 173.—”ChsIn. TrIangular. One of the legends of Freeinauonrl leNa us that when the Jewls~ Masons were carried ma capHvea from lerusalem to Babylon by Nebuebadneasar. they were hound by trL&ngular ebalom. which was Intended am an additional Insult because to them the triangle, or delta. was a symbol of the Deity, to be uaed only on mewed ocesslona. The legend is of course apocryphal, and Ba worth
Babylon, making his triumphal entrance with an immense number of these unchains, not excepting even the unhappy himself, who died three years after. He
g~
Ingexcept am a ~~~ndary
symbol. —Ua*e,~m ~eyeiqma~Ia d
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of the slaves.
OP TUE EAST OR 5~ORD.
He then made choice of those freemasons
who had escaped the fury of their enemies at the dcstruction of the temple to the number of seven thousand (7,000) whom he created Knights, and placed at the head of th~ people to fight such as their passage into Judes. might .oppoee After Zerubbabel had received from the Grand Tressurer all the riches of the temple he took his departure
accompanied by his people, on th~ day which correaponds with the 22nd of March. He prospered on his journey as far as the banks of the Euphrates which separates Judes from Syria. The Knight Masons who arrived there first, found armed troops to prevent their passage on account of the
treasul’es they carried with them. The remonstrance of the Knights and the Edict of Cyrus”’ were equally unavailable to restrain their insolence and they fell on the Knights Masons but were repulsed with such ardour
that to a man they were either drowned or cut to pieces at the passage of the bridge. After this victory”’ Zerubbabel caused an altar to be Note 174.—”Oywua. Thia prince was mentioned by the prophet lasish, two hundred years before he was horn mm the reeto of the temple at Jerusalem. And accordingly, miter tl,e seventy yes’~’ofesptivit.~ Babylon were accomplished. It pleased the Lord to direct him to fasue the following proclamation. The Lord God of Heaven bath given me all the RI~~ms of the earth. and he bath charged me to build him am house at Jerusalem, which is In Judab. Who Is there among you ot all hia peoplet his God be with him, end let him go up In erusalem whieb Ia in Judab, end build the house of the Lord God of Israci he is the Oo%wbicbia in Jerumalem. ‘—Ma.oys Euoyoloj,emdia and Dtotieuas~ Aztieh Oyrus. Note lYS.—”Their peogreas homewards was not altogether unattended with danger; for traditlon Informs us that at the river Euphrates they were opposed hy the Assyrlana, who. incited by the temptation of the vast amount of golden vessels which they were carrying, drew up is hostiie array, and, notwithstanding the remonatran~ of the Jews. and the edict of Gyros, disputed their pammage. Serubbabei, however, repulsed the enemy with such ardor as to ensure a signal victory, moat of the Asayrlans having been slain in the battle, or drowned in their attemnt to cross the river In their retreat. The rest of the Journey was unfi,ter. rupted. and, after a march of four months. Zeruhbabel arrived at Jern.. 1cm. with his weary foilowers. at seven o’clock in the morning of the d of June. five hundred and tbirty.five years before Christ. ‘—Naehsy’s opeadia ml lummaaengy mole Sasubbabel
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seseted on the field of battle on which an Holocaust to the God of armies was offered. The Israelites then passed the river and arrived at Jerusalem, where after seven days rest, with the assist-. ance of a number of Jews who had escaped from the fury of the war and the rigors of the captivity had been wandering, dispersed and miserable near the ruins which had once been the scene of their grandeur. Among this number were several Grand Elect, Pei. feet and Sublime Masons,’who had received a knowledge of the mysteries from their ancestors and met together secretly to mourn over the misfortunes of their brethren and to practice the ceremonies of their order.
These zealous masons sought among the rubbish and ruins for the entrance to the sacred vault, which had not been discovered by the enemy at the destruction of the temple, and after diligent search were successful and used to meet there and practice their mysteries, being animated with the hope of some day seeing their labors renewed. They continued to elect a chief to preside over their assemblies until Zerubbabel’s return when they began the foundation and work of the new temple. Hardly was the work begun however, when the Knights Masons were disturbed by false brethren from Samaria, who, jealous of the glory the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, were to acquire being now free, resolved to declare war against them in order to defeat their design of rebuilding the temple. Zerubbabel belug informed of their intentions ordered that all the workmen should be armed with a sword, so that while they worked with a trowel they might defend themselves and repulse the enemy when required.
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The construction of the new temple lasted forty-six (48) years, beginning in the reign of Cyrus and ending
in that of Artaxerxes, and constructed in the same manner as the first one by Solomon. This second ~temple having been destroyed ~bythe Romans, the Knights Masons of the present age descendants of those who constructed it are obliged under
the guidance of a new Zerubbabel to raise a third temple to the glory of the Supreme Architect of the Universe. LECTURE KNIGHT OF THE EAST OR SWORD.
Grand Orator—Venerable Master of Ceremonies, are you a Knight df the East? Master of Ceremonies—I have received that character, my name, my robes, my sword and niv firmness, well assures you thereof. Grand Orator—By what means did you arrive at this high degree? Master of Ceremonie8—By my humility, my patience, and frequent solicitations. Grand Orator—To whom did you apply? Master of Ceremonies—To a King. Grand Orator—What is your first name?
Master of Ceremotiies—Zerubbabel. Grand Orator—What is your origin? Master of Ceremonies—I am an Israelite of the tribe of Judah.
Grand Orator—What is your prc~fession? Master of Ceremonies—Masonry. Grand Orator—What buildings did you erect?
Master of Ceremonie8—Temples and tabernacles. Grand Orator—Where did you construct them, being deposed of land?
Master of Ceremonies—In my heart. Grand Orator—What is the surname of a Knight of the East?
.lfaster of Ceremonies—That of a Freemason. Grand Qrator—Why are you a Freemason? Master of Ceremonies—Because the masons who wrought in the temple of Solomon were qualified such, and of course they and their descendants were declared exempt from any and every charge and duty; even that of going to war, their families being called free by excellence, but in process of time having been subdued,
they only recovered their right through the bounty of King Cyrus, who confirmed it to them, thus, therefore they are called most free. Grand Orator-.-Why did Cyrus give the Israelites their liberty?
Master of Ceremonies—Because God appeared to him in a dream and charged him to set his people free and allow them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple which had been destroyed. Grand Orator—What are the duties of a Knight of the East? Master of Ceremonies—To love and adore God, to hold tradition in honor, to succor our brethren in necessity, to anticipate their wants, to receive with friendship strange brethren, to visit the sick and comfort them, to aid in burying the dead, to pray for those that are under persecution, to love mankind in general, avoid the vicious, never frequent a place of debauchery, nor women of infamous life, to be religious in adoring your maker, and an exact observer of the laws of his country. In fine, to follow the precepts of masonry in all its points and render justice and honor to the Princes of Jerusalem, and respect to all superior orders. Thrice Excellent—Brother Orator, you will now read the statutes and general regulations of the Knight. of the East. [He does so.]
F HISTORICAL ANALYSIS YIPTBBNTSL Diouu,
CLOSING CEREMONIES KNIGHTS OF THE EAST
OR SWORD.
Thrice Excellent—(Strikes 5 and 2 with the pommel of his sword,) Princes and Knights, this council is dosed.
Thrice Excellent—(Together all clap 5 and 2.) Glory be to God, Honor to our Sovereign and prosperity to the Knights of the order. AU retire.
KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORD A Jewish D~gree—”3eUeve a Us That Tbe7 All Might be Daed.”
This is a Jewish degree. There is no hint as to who invented it. But “The Kni~iht of the Sword” was the 15th in the “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Mann,
brought from France. This rite had 25 degrees. But Macag says (Encyc. Art Rite of Perfection,) Stephen Mann and others introduced some modifications and additions into the rite and transplanted it into the
United States, under the name of “The Ancient and Accepted Rite.” But who are Stephen Morin and others? Robert Folger, 33, and “Ex-Secretary General,” says that thirteen out of sixteen of them were Jews; of course, ex-Jews, for some of the degrees compliment Christ, which sincere Jews will not do. They were therefore Jews who retained nothing of Judaism but its hatred of Christ—(Foiqer’s History, p. 88.) Hence this fiimsey degree bespatters the Jews with praise. 7,000 of them cut to pieces and drowned an armed force in the Euphrates, “to a man,” as Jack Falstaff deniolished his enemies, in fiction, (see Note 187), and the
Ritual (p. 399), makes King Cyrus say, as the candidate’s chains are being taken off: “May those badges of servitude never again disgrace the hands of a Mason; and more especially, those of a Prince of the house of Judah I’~ Their leader, Morin, was afterward cashiered and recalled by the body which appointed him, for falsehood, and forgery of Masonic Constitutions, and sunk out of history. No one knows where he died. (See Folger, p. £1, Doc.) And the whole web-work of this degree shows its Jewish origin.
Though, in the
preceding degree God is insulted as a “formidable God,” and the candidate is told he is to leave “the Solomonian, mystic furniture behind him,” yet the stories of this do-
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gree are Jewish ;—the Scriptures read are Jewish;—the apron given by Cyrus is of the pattern worn by the
builders of Solomon’s temple, and Solomon himself is referred to by nanie four or five times in this degree. In short, the degree came from 4ewa, the brains Jesuits; whoseofmotive in strained through the brains of ex destroying Christianity, like that of Judas, in betraying Christ, was money. But, in Note 171, as if to crown the infamy of this
degree, and its fellows, we have these remarkable words from Mackey:— “Some of these legends have the concurrent support of Scripture; some are related by Josephus; and some appear to have no historical foundation.” Now if a rational, deliberate, artful design was formed to destroy popular confidence in the Bible, this was the way to do it :—To form a mass, or degree, made up of inspired Scripture, uninspired human history, and mere professed fiction, all mixed and mingled together indiscriminately; and to go through solemn repetitions of this mixture, night after night, for weeks and months and years; attended with oaths, solemnities and prayers; with promises and threats of murder, by mangling, if the sacred thing should be revealed f—in short, to do just what is done in the actings, and repctitions of this and other degrees; and to charge and collect vast sums of money for them ;—together, forms a compound of jugglery, deceit, fraud, swindling, and profanation, which devils only could have invented, and bewitched men only could practice. It contains the swindling of lotteries and mock auctions. It blends Bible with fiction, and treats them as alike true and sacred. And the dupe swallows the compound and ruins his soul as the bedv is ruined by eating sawdust in meat, or sand in sugar. If the Meson believes it, he trusts in lies. If he dish.lieves it, he despises the Bible. And while the Holy Spirit is grieved and insulted and driven away by its prayers, the devil enters the worshippers who are left
“to believe a lie that they afl miqht be damned.TM
CHAPTER
XXVII
SIx’rERNnI DEGREE OR PRINOES op JUuSAIZM.’” DECORATIONS :—Two apartments are used in inony of reception.
the cere-
FIRST APARTMENT :—Called the hail of the West, representing the hall of the Knights of the East or Sword at Jerusalem, hung with yellow colored hangings. The East represents the interior of the Sanctum Sanctorurn, with the sacred furniture in its proper place; in the first part of the reception a large curtain or veil is drawn across in front of the entrance to it, in
the third part of the reception this curtain or veil is drawn aside. In front of said curtain in the East is a canopied throne elevated on five steps, covered with yellow colored cloth; near it is an altar covered with the same on which is a sceptre, sword, trowel and scales. A bal;ince held by a hand is painted on the front of said altar. All the officers occupy small thrones covered with the same cloth. The hall in the last part of the reception is illuminated by twenty-five lights, in groups of flue each. Mote 176.—’‘Prince of Jeruislem. The lath degree of the Ancient and An•ept.ul rite. Tt,e history of this degree is founded Upon the ineldeots ttWI .. .srr,d during tbe building of the second temnpi.’. at whieb time the Je~a were much annoyed by the eot,staggt and malIcIous iuterteregmce of taint itomaritans tbeir ahcP’ut enemies. This degree Is ilosely eon. he. led oith, and a continuation of. the degree of the Knight of the East end ~~~ord. to ~tbleh the reader Is reterr..d for a more detailed sl,,tetneimt. ‘th..r,’ at,,.uld be too principal apartments in addition to the snie•rnom. ‘Ib- liret uptitment represents the eourt of Zerulihabel at J.’rusaicm. Ti,.• imangiugs are of seliron color, except the East. whIch is hung with hhite. i,lu,•. red and violet colors. in stripes. The sceond apartment r.~preae,,ta the couueil “h.~anber of Darius. King of Persia. The hangIngs are green. time thr,,ne anti canopy sagron color. In It Is no Masonic
ftrnlt,.re —Macaye Enoyclopaedla ~ndDictionexy of Preeaaaonsy. Aillole Prises of Jaqaiem.
416
PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.
SECOND APARTMENT :—Is
red, representing an eastern
talace and should be fitted up with as good taste and nowledge of eastern customs as may be suggested. TITLES —The officers of a Council of Princes of Jerusalem shall be styled and take rank ap follows: First—The Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master. Jewel, hand of justice and mallet. Second—The Grand High Priest, Substi~ute Deputy. Jewel, a circle surrounding a Delta. Third—Most Enlightened Grand Orator. Jewel same sa in the lodge of Perfection. Fourth—The Niost Enlightened Senior Grand Warden. Jewel, pillar of strength and a shield. Fifth—The Most Enlightened Junior Grand Warden. Jewel, a compass resting on the segment of a
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circle. Sixth—The Valorous Grand Secretary and Keeper of the Seals and Archives. Jewel, a balance in equipoise. Seventh—The Valorous Grand Treasurer. Jewel, an oblong square and a vase. Eiqhth—The Valorous Grand Master of Ceremonies. Jewel, a trowel and a plumb. Ninth—The Valorous Grand Master of Entrances. Jewel, a spear. Tenth~—The Valorous Grand Hospitaller. Jewel, as in the lodge of Perfection. Eleventh—The Valorous Grand Tyler. Jewel, a flaming sword.
All the jewels should be of gold and on square medals. MEETINGS :—Arc called conventions, the brethren Valorous Princes. QUORUM FOR BUSINESS
:—Five members of a Council
of Princes of Jerusalem shall constitute a quorum for opening and transacting business, provided always the Most Equitable, the Grand High Priest or either of the Wardens
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ELECTION
presexit.
:—Axniually on the 20th of the month
PRINCES OP JERUSALEM.
417
Tebet. INSTALLATION
:—The 23d of the month Adar, on
which days a feast should be held. DRESS :—The officers and brethren are clothed in yellow robes and caps, with red gloves and swords,
with a shield and cilirass. OFFl~ERS :—Wear their official jewels suspended from yellow collars. BRETHREN :—Wear the sash with the jewel suspended from the bottom of it. SASH :—Yellow, edged with gold, worn from right
to ~ft. On it is embroidered a balance, a hand of justice, a poinard, five stars and two crowns. 1”—A gold medal. On one side is engraved JE~ELL a hand holding a ‘balance in euipaise, on the other a
two edged sword in a perpendicular position, hilt down, with the~ ,,~tters D. ‘.Z.’. one at each side of it and five stars surrounding the point. APRON :—Red, lined and bordered with yellow; on it are painted the temple, a square, a buckler, a triangle and a hand. The flap is yellow; on it is a balance and the letters D. .Z. GLOVES :—Red. BATTERY :—Five,
[in some councils] five times five.
AGE :—Ninety-two
years.
HOURS OF WORK :—From
sunrise until the middle
of the day. Note 1Th —“The jewel is a model of gold; on which is engrawed a hand, holding an equal bsLancet a double-edged awe?d, surrounded by five stars; on one aide of which is the letter D. and on the other the letter Z, the initials of Deriua and Zenibbabel. The Princes of Jerusalem are sometimes styled ‘Chiefs of Masonry, and awe authorized to visit and Inspect all lodges of Inferior degrees.’ —Macag’s ~aeye1opacd1a and Dieliousry of N~eeumeefzy, hillel. Puma. of Jesusmiesm.
OPENING CEREMONIES. 419 you ~that he is about to open this Grand Council. Be
attentive to what he proposes.
OPENING CEREMONIES 11’
PRINCES OF JERUsAi.EM
Most Equitable—Most Enlightened Senior Grand Warden, how comes it that we use two apartments lfl this degree, one yellow and the other red?
Senior Grand Warden—Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master, because one apartment represents Jerusalem an holy place, where the first temple
was erected, and the other red, Babylon, in allusion to the blood that was shed in the different combats that were fought on the road between Babylon and Jerusalem by the Knights Masons when they returned from captivity. Most Equitable—It it is so, Most Enlightened Senior and Junior Grand Wardens, acquaint the Valorous Princes here present that I am going to open this
Council. Senior Grand Warden—Valorous Princes, the Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master, informs you that he is about to open this Grand Council. Be attentive to what he proposes. Junior Grand Warden—Valorous Princes, the Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master informs Note 1~S.—Vrtnce of Jerusalem. [Scotch Masonry.1—Tho second degree conferred in the Council o( Princes of Jerusalem. scotch Essonry. and the sliternth upon the catalogue of thai system. The omcers are. Moat Equitable, representing Zerubbabel; Grand High Priest, representing Jeshua; a senior and Junior Most Enlightened Grand warden, Grand Keeper of the seals and Archives, Grand Treasurer. Grand Master of Ceremonies, Grand Master of Entrances and Grand Tyier. The apron is white, bordered with gold lace and lined with aurora color; on it are the emblems of the degree. Tha lewel Is a square silver medal, displaying on both sides a balance In equlpolse, Iwo-edged sword, with five stars surrounding the point and the letters D. and Z. on opposite sides. Hours of work, sumelse till sunset ‘—Merits’s Mmaoofe Diettinacy, hillel. Vita., of Jerusofem.
Most Equitable—Most Enlightened Senior Grand Warden, what’s the clock? Senior Grand Warden—Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master, it is five in the morning. Most Equitable—(Kiioeks three; 000; All rise.) Order Valorous Princes! Draw swords! Carry swords! Present swords! Most Equitable—To the glory of the Grand Archi-
tect of the Universe, in the name and under the auspices of the Supreme Council and Sovereign Grand Consistory of Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Masonry for the United States of America, their territories and
dependencies and by virtue of the authority on me conferred. I declare the works of—Council of Princes of Jerusalem opened. Most Equitable—Carry swords! Return swords!
Most Equitable—(Together! All give the sign and battery.) Most Equitable—(Knocks one; 0.) Be seated Valor-
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INITIATION.
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I congratulate you my brother on the recovery of the word, which entitIes you to this degree of Perfect Masonry. [shall make no comment or eulogium on it. Its sublimity will no doubt be duly appreciated by you. You perceive, no doubt, with satisfaction, that you~were not deceived when you were promised an aim Sublime which makes you perfect in the mysteries of masonr’ and unveils to you its allegorical emblems. To that point we are about to arrive. Now that you have attained this high estate in masonry, you have found in it all that is beautiful and good; you have become per rect. The sublime and the true have been developed to your eyes. It is not enough, my brother, to have been ab]e~ merit and acquire it, you must more and more render yourself perfect in it aiid study to draw from it fQr the future all the fruita possible, and rhay you my dear brother long enjoy it among us. Grant us that friendz~hip, which is the bond of all associations, and be assured of ours, which you have now acquired. I will now instruct you in the signs, tokcns and worda of this degree.
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this Sovereign’” Chapter of Rose Croix, I do hereby constitute and ‘creale you a Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix de Herodem and Knight of the Eagle and Pelican that you may eljoy now and forever all the privileges, prerogatives and titles attached to this sublime degree, as virtue and humanity are the foundations of it. I hope my brother never to see you diehonor the ribbon with which you have been invested. ANIWUL
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Give the sign of the Good Shepherd; face each other, bow; place reciprocally crossed hands on breast and give the fraternal kiss and pronounce the pm word. PASS WORD :—Emniaiiuel. SACDBD wow:—I. :.N. :3 :.I.:. Mn; lettered by Uie persons giving it alternately. They are the initials of the latin worda; Jeaus, Kazarenue, Rew, Judaorue* signifying Jesus of Nazareth, King of th~ Jews. [In Latin I and J are interchangealle.] Maater—Go, ~nybrother, and make yourself known to all the members of this Sovereign Chapter and return again. (Candidate passes from one to another whispering the pans-word in the ear of each, then returns and kneels before the alt&r when the bret)2ren gather around him and each places his right hand on him.) Maagcr—(Investiflg candidate with ribbon and jewel of degree.) By virtue o~ the authority vested in me by
TO STEAL THE POPULARITY OF RODENT BRUCE.
PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS EIGHTEENTH D10~, OR SOvEREIGN PRINCE OF ilos: CRoIx DE HEBODEM, AND KNIGHT OP THE EAGLE AND PEUCAI~T. Pretended Seoteta Origin Cf Degree Futge.—To Steat the Poputarity of Robert Brnce.—Roae Croix HeLL, a Murnontc Cartcatn*w.—itnpndebt and Detatible Mimicry.
The review of this degree appropriately closes Vol. 1, of this work. To understand it, read carefully the foot-notes, taken from the masters of Masonry, and seers of religious antagonism to the Bible and God. From these Masonic teachers we learn that this degree of the Rose (or blood-red) Cross “was founded by the Jesuits for the purpose of counteracting the insidious attacks of Free Thinkers upon the Romish Faith,” (Note 186.) This testimony of Clavel is obviously true. “It is conferred in a body called a Chaptcr,”(Note 188) which is the Romish name for a Dean and his Clergy. “The word is now exclusively appropriate for lodges conferring degrees higher than the Symbolic,” or Old York degrces, (Mackey’s Cyclopaedia, Art. Chapter.) These “higher” degr~es, we need scarcely say, are French; inventedin the JesLits’ College of Clermont, Paris; and that. at the time when Scotch mind led the Protestant world. Scotland had overthrown and expelled Popery without shedding a drop of Popish blood; though her own martyrs shed plenty I France then led the false worships of the Anti-Christian world, by infidelity and superstition in the form of atheism and Roinanism. And this Rose Cross degree was falsely derived from Scotland by Oliver, who said it was instituted by Robert Bruce, in a mountain called “Herodem,” (Note 187.) This stupendous falsehood was invented for the double purpose of giving Masonry the popularity
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of Robert Bruce~ the hero of Bsnnockburn; and deriving .this degree from Scotland, then the leading nation of pure Bible ChristianityI But, as here stated by Clavel, (Note 186.) the degree was invented by Jesuits, to popularize and protect priestcraft and the ~Romishsuperstition, from atheism which is born of priestcraft which makes the lovely and simple religion of Christ so shockingly abhorrent that men revolt at it, and mistaking priestism for Christianity, flee to atheism to get rid of it. To comprehend this, read carefully thin expose, which, depicting the hall or halls where this, so called “emincntly Christian” degree is enacted, thus describes its lodge room: “The First Apartment represents Mount Calvary, and is hung with black,” and lighted with wax candles. “The Second Apartment contains a transparency representing the ascension of Christ ;“ and “The Third Apartment represents Hell” as a lake of boiling brimstone, out of which “human beings encircled with flames,” are attempting to crawl, while “devils with pitchforks” are pitching them back. Such is the room, and such the drapery of the rooms where thin degree of the Rose Cross is enacted, of which the Masonic Lexicographer, Mackey, says, “everything, in short, about the degree is Christian.” See (Note 198.) This is about as just, fair, and true a picture of Bible Religion as would be a painting of the Slavery-Rebellion, representing it as a Hell of War, Poverty, Liquor, Poison, Arson, and Negro-whipping with Robert Toombs, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Judah P. Benjamin and others, creeping up the banks to get out; with Johan Most and his Anarchists thrusting them back with hot pitchforks, over the dead line of Libby and
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IMPUDENT AND DETESTABLE IUMICBY.
Andersonville, with Lincoln in the distance looking ou smiling. Doubtless the Hell of the Bible, which is a hell of sin and wrath made by sinners, and preferred by them to Heaven, is hotter than flames, and more offei~sive than brimstone. But this Rose Cross Hell is a Masonic caricature invented by priests, to scare sinners and keep them paying Peter’s Pence, to support them in luxury and vice. Such a Hell is in short a stupendous Masonic falsehood; a double-acting caricature, to manufacture a Romish population of weak and timid’ dupes; and sturdy, stujid atheists. But the use Masons now make of it is succinctly explained in the expose (p. 476) where the Muter of Carqmonies “leads the candidate around the room three times ~“ calls his attention to the “representation. of the torments of the damned,” and then tells him: “The horrors which you have just seen are but a faint representation of those you shall suffer if you break through our laws, or infringe the obligation you have taken.” This degree thus cl~rly proves and shows the identity and oneness of Popery and Masonry; both in their origin and their~ object. Both are the invention of priests. Both are false religions. Both farm men’s interest in eternity that tyrants may tax and govern them
procure the crucifixion of Christ; and then seize the Cross on which the world’s horror was enacted; to turn It into an idol, draw away the sinner’s attention from the sufferer; and cheat mankind out of salvation by his death. Now when you have waded through the gewgawa and trumpery of these two devil caricatures of the Revelation, ma(le by these 17th and 18th degrees, whcre the, most sublime and awful realities are degraded by the most impudent and detestable mimicry; as “the angels holding the four winds of the earth.” (Rev. 7, 1,) per~onifiodby men, called Masons, holding, and whisking bladders filled with wind; with which more diabolical balderdash; then open your Bibles and read the Revelation itself, which wonderful book is a series of tableaux or plates, in the war against idolatry; down to the final gathering of Gog and Magog to the great battle-day of God; and you will clearly discern “the Philosophy of these two devils’ degrees which is to degrade the Revelation of Jesus Christ.”
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Both this degree and the 17th, preceding, are called by Masonic Authorities, “entirely philosophical,” (Note 182,) and they are. They lay hold of the Apocalypse which has been largely a sealed book to Christ’s Church and they thus use “the Revelation of Jesus Christ” for the purpose of Devils; who, by entering Judas Iscariot,
